1. The market for tortillas is perfectly competitive, with market demand given by p 1.000022, with...
1. The market for tortillas is perfectly competitive, with market demand given by p 1-.000020, with price in dollars per tortilla and Q in thousands of tortillas. The short-run marginal cost curve for a typical tortilla factory is MC = .10 + .0005g.with MC in dollars per tortilla and q in thousands of tortillas. The fixed cost of running a factory is $15,000 per firm. (a) If there are 50 identical factories, determine the short-run aggregate supply function. b) What...
Assume the market for tortillas is perfectly competitive. The market supply and demand curves for tortillas are given as follows: Supply curve: P =0.000002Q Demand curve: P = 11 - 0.00002Q The short run marginal cost curve for one tortilla factory is: MC = 0.0005q The firm's average variable cost curve intersects the marginal cost at a vertical distance of 0.1 above the horizontal axis. a. Determine the equilibrium price for tortillas. b. Determine the profit maximizing short run equilibrium...
1. Assume the market for tortillas is perfectly competitive. The market supply and demand curves for tortillas are given as follows: Supply curve: P = 0.20 Demand curve: P = 1100 – 20 The short-run total cost curve for a typical tortilla factory, ABC, is: TC = 500 + 10 + 4.522 a) Determine the market equilibrium price and quantity. b) Determine the profit-maximizing level of output for factory ABC. c) Assuming that all of the factories are identical, how...
Question 2 The tortilla industry commissions you to examine the outlook for firms selling tortillas. There are currently twenty, identical price-taking firms in this perfectly competitive market. Each firm has a short-run cost function of STC(Q) = 9+ 2Q + . When the price is P, the total quantity demanded is given by Q(P) = 100 – 2P . (a) Assuming all fixed costs are sunk, find the short-run supply curve for a typical firm. (b) In the short run,...
[1] A perfectly competitive aluminum producer is currently producing a quantity where the market price is $0.67 per pound (i.e., 67 cents per pound), average total cost is $0.70, and average variable cost of $0.60 (which corresponds to the minimum point on the average variable cost curve). Would you recommend this firm expand output, contract output, or shut down in the short-run? Provide a graph to illustrate your answer. [2] Suppose the local crawfish market is perfectly competitive, with the...
6. Suppose you have a job analyzing a perfectly competitive market. The aggregate demand is o p) = 98 - P and the cost function for the firms is C(q) = 79 +35. Suppose all firms use the same cost function. (a) Setup and solve the profit maximization problem over quantity. Write the quantity an individual firm will produce as a function of the sale price. (3 points) (b) Solve for the price, quantity, and profits for each individual shop...
6. Short-run perfectly competitive equilibrium Consider a perfectly competitive market for wheat in Philadelphia. There are 80 firms in the industry, each of which has the cost curves shown on the following graph: MC ATC COST (Cents per bushel) AVC 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Demand Supply Curve Equilibrium PRICE (Cents per bushel) 0 400 800 1200 1600 2000 2400 2800 3200 3600 4000 QUANTITY OF OUTPUT (Thousands of bushels) in the short run....
Suppose that in a perfectly competitive market, demand is given by Q=63.0-P and supply is given by Q=P-9.0. What is aggregate surplus in the competitive market equilibrium? No units, no rounding.
6. Suppose you have a job analyzing a perfectly competitive market. The aggregate demand is CP(p) -98 - and the cost function for the firms is Cla) -79 +35. Suppose all firms use the same cost function. (a) Setup and solve the profit maximization problem over quantity. Write the quantity an individual firm will produce as a function of the sale price. (3 points) (b) Solve for the price, quantity, and profits for each individual shop and then also for...
The perfectly competitive firm and market in the short run Consider a perfectly competitive market where demand is QD = 2,000 - 40P and quantity is measured in units while price is measured in dollars per unit. The long run supply is QS = 100P - 800. a) Find the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity. b) When the market is in equilibrium, what is the total expenditure in this market? c) When the market is in equilibrium, what is...