Economics quiz 3 | Economics homework help
QUIZ 3
Please put your answers to multiple choice questions in the proper cell of the Excel file under the link Quiz 3 MC Answer Sheet
and provide your answers to short-answer questions/prob of transaction costs
lems in a separate Word file.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (2 pts. EACH)
1. Characteristics of a perfectly competitive market include
A. The absence of transaction costs
B. Differentiated products
C. Few sellers, some with a large market share
D. All of the above
2. Suppose Julia and Zach are the only consumers of milk. Julia’s demand for milk is defined as
at prices below $4 and zero for prices above $4. Zach’s demand for milk is
defined as at prices below $5 and zero for prices above $5. If the market price
for milk is $4.50, market demand is
A. Zero
B. 1.5
C. 1
D. 10
3. Milky Moo and Mega Cow are the only sellers of milk. Milky Moo’s supply function is
at prices above $0.50 and zero at prices below $0.50. Mega Cow’s supply
function is at prices above $0.33 and zero at prices below $0.33. At a price of
$0.45
A. Milky Moo is the only supplier of milk
B. Mega Cow is the only supplier of milk
C. Both Milky Moo and Mega Cow supply milk
D. Neither Milky Moo nor Mega Cow supply milk
4. With free entry
A. The long run market supply curve is horizontal at the market price
B. The long run market supply curve is vertical at the market price
C. The short and long run market supply curves are the same
D. A and D
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5. The market demand for milk is |
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entry into the market. Suppose the demand for milk doubles. If in the short run the number of firms is fixed and their fixed costs are sunk, what is each of the active firms’ profit per unit in the short run equilibrium?
A. $4
B. $20
C. $24
D. $10
6. A monopoly market is
A. A market with many sellers
B. A market with a single seller
C. A market with a few sellers
D. B and C
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7. Suppose Kate’s Great Crete (KGC) has annual variable costs of |
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marginal costs of |
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produces per year. In addition, it has an avoidable fixed cost of $50,000 per year. KGC’s demand
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A. 20 |
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B. 2,000 |
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C. 8,000 |
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D. 0 |
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8. A firm’s markup over its marginal cost is greater
A. The more elastic is the demand curve
B. The less elastic is the demand curve
C. The lower its fixed costs
D. The lower its average costs
9. The Solo Coal Mine is the only employer in the small town of Way out there. The market
supply of coal miners is
and , where W is the annual wage of a coal miner and Q is the number of coal miners. What is the profit maximizing number of coal miners for the coal mine to hire?
A. 100
B. 150
C. 50
D. 233.34
10. A market is a natural monopoly when
A. A good is produced most economically by several firms B. A good is produced most economically by one firm
C. The government grants a firm a patent on a good
D. The firm’s average cost function is everywhere upward sloping
11. Price discrimination is based on observable customer characteristics
A. When a firm can distinguish consumers with a high versus low willingness to pay
B. When a firm offers a menu of alternatives, designed so that different customers will make different choices based on their willingness to pay
C. A monopolist knows perfectly the customer’s willingness to pay for each unit its sells and can charge a different price for each unit
D. B and C
12. A movie monopolist sells to students and adults. The demand function for students is
and the demand function for adults is . The marginal cost is $2 per ticket. Suppose the movie theater can price discriminate. What is the monopolist’s profit from students?
A. $400
B. $2400
C. $2500 D. $0
13. Mixed bundling
A. Is the practice of selling several products together as a package
B. Is the practice of selling the same good to different types of consumers at different prices
C. Is the practice of selling several products together as a package while also offering those products for sale individually
D. Is the practice of selling goods in bulk at a reduced per unit price
14. With a two-part tariff
A. Consumers simply pay a fixed fee if they buy anything at all
B. Consumers pay a fixed fee if they buy anything at all, plus a separate per-unit price for each unit they buy
C. Consumers pay a fixed fee if they buy anything at all, plus an annual fee for the right to purchase anything
D. Consumers simply pay a fee for the right to buy anything 15. At the Nash equilibrium of an oligopoly market
A. Only one firm is able to earn profits
B. Each firm is making a profit-maximizing choice, regardless of the choices of its rivals
C. Each firm is making a profit-maximizing choice given the choices of its rivals
D. Each firm produces the same quantity
16. A residual demand curve
A. Shows the relationship between the market price and the quantity demanded by consumers at each price
B. Shows the relationship between a firm’s output and the market price given the prices charged by the firm’s rivals
C. Shows the relationship between a firm’s output and the market price given the outputs of the firm’s rivals
D. Shows the remaining demand for a good after a firm’s rivals have sold their output
17. Kate and Alice are small-town ready-mix concrete duopolists. The market demand function is
where P is the price of a cubic yard of concrete and Qd is the number of
cubic yards demanded per year. Marginal cost is $80 per cubic yard. The Cournot model
describes the competition in this market. What is Alice’s inverse residual demand function?
A. , Where the term in parentheses is constant
B. , Where the term in parentheses is constant
C. , Where the term in parentheses is constant
D. , Where the term in parentheses is constant
18. Kate and Alice are small-town ready-mix concrete duopolists. The market demand function
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cubic yards demanded per year. Marginal cost is $80 per cubic yard. The Cournot model |
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A. 2,000 |
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B. 1,333.33 |
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C. 800 |
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D. 4,000 |
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19. Suppose the daily demand for Coke and Pepsi in a small city are given by |
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the number of cans Coke and Pepsi sell, respectively, in thousands per day. PC and PP are the |
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prices of a can of Coke and Pepsi, respectively, measured in dollars. The marginal cost is $0.45 per can. If PC = $0.60, what is Pepsi’s demand function?
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20. Firms engage in tacit collusion when
A. They predict what the other will do and attempt to undercut them
B. They collude without communicating, sustaining a price above the noncooperative price that would arise in a single competitive interaction
C. They communicate to reach an agreement about the prices they will charge
D. They communicate what type of good they will produce
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS / PROBLEMS
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(10 points) Suppose the wiz-pop market is in long-run equilibrium. Suddenly, fixed costs decrease, although variable costs remain unchanged. Discuss the short-run and long-run changes in market equilibrium.
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(10 points) After Apple introduced its new iPhone, the price of standard cell phones rose. A consumer advocacy group that has long claimed that standard cell phone producers are colluding like a monopolist asserts that this is further evidence of that fact. You’ve noticed that the elasticity of demand for standard cell phones increased after Apple’s entry. Does this shed any light on the group’s claim?
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(20 pts.) Suppose Always There Wireless serves 100 high-high demand wireless consumers,
each of whose monthly demand curve for minutes of wireless service is
and 300 low-demand consumers, each of whose monthly demand curve for minutes of wireless is
, where P is the per-minute price in dollars. Its marginal cost is $0.25 per minute. Suppose Always There Wireless charges $0.25 per minute.
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How many minutes will high-demand consumers purchase?
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How many minutes will low-demand consumers purchase?
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How much can Always There Wireless charge as a fixed fee without losing the low-demand consumers?
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What are the profits from sales to each of the low-demand consumers?
4. (20 pts.) a. Define the Bertrand model and its assumptions. Explain why the model predicts the perfectly competitive outcome despite the number of sellers. Discuss the limitations of the model.
b. Compare and contrast the Bertrand and Cournot models of oligopoly. Your discussion should include assumptions made, goals of the firms and the resulting outcomes.
