Explanation According to monopoly market, monopoly have a price effect. They fix their price in the market. It is because they are the single seller of a particular product in the market. They can either choose a highest production with lowest price or lowest production with highest price. A profit maximizing monopoly will not choose the first one because they produce at higher price than their marginal cost to capture a high profit. In the case of an oligopoly market, they have the ability of price fixing. However, they will not use that ability to fix their price in the market...

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Chapter 24, Problem 10CQ

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Price and output decision of monopoly and oligopoly.

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