The following Table refers to four buyers’ willingness to pay for papadums. Each buyer is willing to buy at most one papadum and no more. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DOES NOT NEED ANSWERING Let the competitive market price be $4.00: calculate the total consumer surplus in the market at this price. (b) Assume now that there is only a single seller of papadums, and she knows each buyer’s willingness to pay. Assume that this seller incurs a cost of $4.00 per unit of papadum produced (i.e., the marginal cost is constant). If she intends to maximise profits, how many papadums would this seller supply to the market, and what price would she charge? QUESTION Calculate the producer surplus and consumer surplus at the monopoly price and production level from (b). Are consumers better off or worse off in the monopoly situation relative to the competitive market? Why?
The following Table refers to four buyers’
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DOES NOT NEED ANSWERING Let the competitive market
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