In some regulated industries, regulatory agencies pre-vented prices from falling, and as a result many firms opened for business in those industries. Is this kind of regulation competitive or anticompetitive? Is it a good idea or a bad one

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A: Indeed, government ought to control monopoly.

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A: Elasticity of demand depicts how much consumer responds with the change in the price level.

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A: It will charge the price that will maximize total revenue.

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A: Monopoly is a form of market in which there is one seller in the market.

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