Which of the following statements is true?
A) Monopolists are price makers. All other firms are price takers.
B) Unlike other industries, monopoly industries have high barriers to entry.
C) Only monopoly firms are granted patents and copyrights.
D) Unlike other firms, a monopolist's demand curve is the same as the market demand curve.
Answer: D
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If the local cable TV company is a natural monopoly and required by regulators to set its price equal to marginal cost, there is a deadweight loss in the market and the firm might need a government subsidy to survive
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Fed policies since the 1980s have attempted to
A) overshoot natural real GDP. B) undershoot natural real GDP. C) "stall" the economy whenever natural real GDP is growing too fast. D) A and B. E) none of the above.
Which of the following is false?
a. Long run equilibrium in monopolistic competition results in zero economic profits b. Monopolistic competitor's demand curves are likely to be more elastic than those of monopolists. c. Monopolistic competition results in a greater variety of products than perfect competition. d. Monopolistic competition's zero economic profit long run equilibrium is efficient, like the zero profit equilibrium in perfect competition.