Consider a profit-maximizing monopoly pricing under the following conditions. The profit-maximizing price charged for goods produced is $12.The intersection of the marginal revenue and marginal cost curves occurs where output is 10 units and marginal cost is $6 . The socially efficient level of production is 12 units. The demand curve and marginal cost curves are linear. What is the value of the
deadweight loss created by the monopolist?
a. $4
b. $6
c. $12
d. $16
b
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A demand-pull inflation initially is characterized by
A) increasing real output and a labor surplus. B) no change in real output and a labor shortage. C) decreasing real output and a labor surplus. D) decreasing real output and a labor shortage. E) increasing real output and a labor shortage.
For prices above the minimum average variable cost, a perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is
A) horizontal at the market price. B) vertical at zero output. C) the same as its marginal cost curve. D) the same as its average variable cost curve.
In the figure above, the deadweight loss when the market is a single-price monopoly rather than perfectly competitive is the area of
A) triangle aeb. B) triangle aic. C) triangle eig. D) triangle eif.
Sales agents being paid a fixed commission on the sales are more likely to
a. Tell their bosses that they need to price higher to make sales b. Tell their bosses that they need to price lower to make sales c. Not say anything to their boss d. None of the above