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Chapter 6, Problem 4P
(a)
To determine
The number of units supplied at a market price of
(b)
To determine
Long-run price with the help of
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Assume that a firm in a competitive market faces the following cost information. If the market price for this firm's product is $40, calculate the profit maximizing level of output for this firm using marginal analysis.
a.Approximately where do you think the price will end up in this market over the long run?
b.Last, instead of assuming a given price, how would you go about finding the equilibrium price if you were given information on market demand?
(a) Let the industry producing soybeans be in a long-run equilibrium. What is the equilibrium price of a bushel of soybeans? How many billions of bushels are produced? How many farmers are there in the industry? What is the shipping fee per bushel of soybeans?
(b) Suppose that the demand for soybeans drops due to decreased im- port by China and becomes
Q = 15.3 − p.
In a new long run equilibrium, what is the equilibrium price of a bushel of soybeans? How many billions of bushels are produced? How many farmers are there in the industry? What is the shipping fee per bushel?
(c) Calculate the change in the producers’ surplus between the situations described in (a) and (b).
(d) Show that the decrease in the producers’ surplus equals to the decrease in the total shipping fees as the industry contracts incrementally from the equilibrium output in (a) to the equilibrium output in (b).
Assume that a firm in a competitive market faces the following cost information. If the market price for this firm's product is $40, calculate the profit maximizing level of output for this firm using marginal analysis. It may help to create your own cost table and fill in columns for Marginal Cost and Average Total Cost based on the Total Cost information below.
a.What is the level of profit for this firm at the profit maximizing output?
b.To convince yourself that the quantity you found is indeed the profit maximizing quantity, try calculating what the profit would be at the next higher level of output. What did you find?
c. What do you predict will happen in this market over the long run?
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