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CH 25 Review Monopolies. The market structure where there is a single supplier of a good or service for which there is no close substitute is Oligopoly Perfect competition Monopoly Monopolistic competition. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The market structure where there is a single supplier of a good or service for which there is no close substitute is
A. OligopolyB. Perfect competitionC. MonopolyD. Monopolistic competition
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Small Town U.S.A. has no airport, no train service, and no water transportation systems. It only has Greyhound Transportation. In Small Town U.S.A., Greyhound
A. Is an example of long distance mass transportation monopoly
B. Is an example of pure competition in mass transportation industry.
C. Is an example of mass transportation monopolistic competition
D. Is an example of pure oligopoly
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For a firm to become a monopoly in an industryA) Barriers to entry must existB) The firm must charge higher prices than its
competitorsC) The firm must produce a faulty productD) The firm will engage in unfair practices to drive all
competitors out of the market
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The market structure where there is a single supplier of a good or service for which there is no close substitute is…..
A. A price searcherB. A monopolyC. A tariffD. The most economically efficient market structure
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Entry barriers are most significant in
A) Pure competitionB) Monopolistic competitionC) OligopolyD)Pure monopoly
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Considering the spectrum of market structures and moving from pure competition to pure monopoly we can say that:
A) Entry barriers get lower but exit gets more difficult.B) Entry becomes harder but exit becomes easierC) Entry gets harder and the number of firms
dwindlesD) None of the above
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A barrier to entry is
A. A term used to explain why monopolies always make economic profits
B. A restriction on the profits that a monopoly can make
C. The situation when the government produces a good instead of relying on private firms to produce the good
D. A restriction on starting a business
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Some industries exist where, in order to enter the industry a firm must incur a large fixed cost before being able to start producing. Which of the following statements is true?
A) This situation usually means that the government steps in and provides firms with startup costs.
B) The government always produces these goodsC) This creates barriers to entry and firms will earn
monopoly profitsD) This industry will attract a lot firms
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All of the following are considered a barrier to entry into a market EXCEPT
A) Ownership of resources without close substitutesB) When firms can only earn a normal rate of return
in a marketC) Economies of scaleD) When there is a large capital investment necessary
to get into the market
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Shortly after the turn of the century, U.S. steel owned most of the iron ore reserves in the country. This is an example of
A) Monopoly due to government restrictionsB) A barrier to entry from owning an important
resourceC) A barrier to entry from scale economiesD) Monopoly due to large capital requirements
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Which of the following is issued to an investor to provide protection from having the invention copied or stolen for 20 years?A) A licenseB) A natural monopolyC) A patentD) A certificate of convenience
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Which of the following is not true about a cartel?
A) Members earn higher-than-competitive profitsB) Members experience large economies of scale
relative to industry demandC) Cartels will set common prices for their membersD) Members of a cartel will have production quotas
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Refer to the above figure. Which of the following statements is true about the demand curves for an individual firm in a perfectly competitive industry and a monopoly?A) Panel A is the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm and
panel B is the demand curve for a monopoly.B) Panel C is the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm and
panel A is the demand curve for a monopoly.C) Panel C is the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm and
panel B is the demand curve for a monopoly.D) Panel B is the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm and
Panel A is the demand curve for a monopoly.
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An association of producers in an industry that agree to set common prices and output quotas to prevent competition is
A) A tariffB) A patentC) Economies of scaleD) A cartel
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An important difference between perfect competition and monopoly is
A) A monopoly is profitable and a perfect competitor is not.
B) The monopoly faces a downward sloping demand curve and the perfect competitor faces a horizontal demand curve.
C) The monopoly faces an inelastic demand curve and the perfect competitor faces an elastic demand curve.
D) A monopoly is not regulated by the market, while a perfect competitor is regulated by the market
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Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between a firm’s demand curve under perfect competition and monopoly?A) Under perfect competition the demand curve is perfectly
elastic while under monopoly the demand curve has elastic, unitary and inelastic portions.
B) Under monopoly the demand curve is perfectly elastic while under perfect competition the demand curve has elastic, unitary and inelastic portions
C) The demand curves for a monopoly and perfect competition are always inelastic
D) We can define a demand curve under perfect competition but not in monopoly.
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To induce an increase in the quantity demanded of its product, a monopolist must reduce the….A) Quality of its product and thereby generate a
downward shift its ATC curve.B) Price of its product and thereby generate a
rightward shift in its demand curveC) Price of its product and thereby generate a
rightward movement along its demand curveD) Quality of its product and thereby generate a
downward movement along its ATC curve.
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Successive downward movements along the demand curve for the product of a monopolist always generate successive….A) Increases in the monopolist’s marginal revenueB) Increases in the monopolist’s average total costs.C) Decreases in the additional per-unit costs incurred
by the monopolistD) Decreases in the additional per-unit revenues
earned by the monopolist
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A monopolist wishing to increase its profit has just discovered that lowering its price and selling more output yielded the desired result. Profit increased. Based on this, we can conclude that the cost of the additional production is…..A) Greater than the revenue from the additional
productionB) Precisely equal to the revenue from the additional
productionC) Less than the revenue from the additional productionD) There is no way to answer this because you have not
given us the marginal revenue and marginal cost data
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Refer to the above figure. Profits for this firm are….A) NegativeB) ZeroC) PositiveD) Undetermined without more information
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Refer to the above figure. Profits for this firm are…A) Positive and equal to P2P1abB) Positive and equal to P3P1acC) Negative and equal to P3P2bcD) Negative and equal to OP3cQ1
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For a monopolist the reason that marginal revenue is less than price is….A) Due to the perfectly elastic demand curve that the
monopolist faces.B) Because the monopolist must lower the price of
the good in order to sell an additional unit.C) Due to the U-shaped average revenue curve.D) Because of the lack of competition in the market.
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