Demand for 64GB USB memor sticks is Pd=22-.004Q, SanDisk Inc. has a cost function Cs(Qs)=$5*Qs. Kingston Technology's cost function is Ck (Qk)=$8*Qk. If SanDisk has a monopoly, what profit maximizing price will it charge?
Demand for 64GB USB memor sticks is Pd=22-.004Q, SanDisk Inc. has a cost function Cs(Qs)=$5*Qs. Kingston...
A firm with market power faces a demand curve: PD = 75 - 0.7Q and its cost function is: TC = 348 + 12Q - 1.28Q2 + 0.062Q3 What is the firm's profit-maximizing output, What is the firm's maximum profit, What is the firm's markup of price over marginal cost
Plot the Supply and demand schedule. Pd Qd Ps Qs 5 14 5 1 7.7 10 7 2 9 4 9 4 18.5 2 18.5 14 Explain and illustrate what happens when a price ceiling is imposed? Explain and illustrate what happens when a price floor is imposed? A simple market has a demand curve Qd=110-5p and a supply curve Qs=-65+6p. Find the equilibrium price and quantity. Show graphically. A simple market has a demand curve Qd= 125-4p and a...
A firm has the cost function That is, it has a fixed production capacity i, below which marginal cost is constant, at e (a) Sketch the firm's marginal- and average-cost function. (b) Solve for its profit-maximizing output if it sells in a perfectly competitive market. (e) Describe the solution possibilities for output if the firm is a profit- maximizing monopoly with linear demand (d) Identify the "shadow price of capacity in each of cases (b) and (c). A firm has...
Price and cost per unit $30 MC 24 АТС 22 20.80 20 18 Demand MR Quantity 104 62 83 Where is the profit-maximizing quantity and price for the monopoly represented above (1 point) a. Where is the profit-maximizing quantity and price if this monopoly where a perfect competition instead? (1 point) b. What is consumer surplus if this were a perfect competition instead (0.5 point) C. What is the gain in producer surplus under the monopoly? (0.5 point) d. What...
Price and cost per unit $30 MC ATC 24 22 20.80 20 18 Demand MR 62 83 104 Quantity Where is the profit-maximizing quantity and price for the monopoly represented above (1 point) a. b. Where is the profit-maximizing quantity and price if this monopoly where a perfect competition instead? (1 point) What is consumer surplus if this were a perfect competition instead (0.5 point) d. What is the gain in producer surplus under the monopoly? (0.5 point) What is...
Table: Demand and Total Cost Table: Demand and Total Cost Quantity Price per (megawatts) Megawatt Total Cost $550 $1.000 500 1.075 450 1.200 1.375 350 1.600 300 1.875 250 2200 2.575 400 200 Use Table: Demand and Total Cost. Lenoia runs a natural monopoly firm producing electricity for a small mountain village. The table shows Lenoia's demand and total cost of producing electricity. The profit-maximizing quantity of electricity for her to produce is megawatts. O2 os Figure: The Monopolist Price,...
Two duopoly firms each have a cost function: TC (Q) 600 Market Inverse Demand is: Po (Q)-824 0.6Q After the duopolists meet secretly and agree to evenly split the profit-maximizing output, Firm 1 decides to break the monopoly-splitting agreement and change its output to maximize its own profit. What will be the reduction in price for both firms to the nearest dollar? (Subtract the new price from the monopoly price] Two duopoly firms each have a cost function: TC (Q)...
tdSDoorstope, INC.(DD is a monopolist in the doorstop industry its total cost function 1s oiven by the quadratic function of output Cla) 100-5Q+. The inverse demand function for doorstops Pis given by the linear function PIQ)-55-2Q. Nte that the margnal cost C'(Q) is not constant. (Also, it happens to be negative for 0 s Q <2 How much consumer surplus CS and producer surplus PSM and total surplus does DD generate by its profit-maximizing plan? (d) Find the profit-maximizing rate...
1. Consider a monopolist facing the demand curve p = 90 - 2q with cost function clg)0.252 (a) Find the profit maximizing quantity qm and price pm What are the monopo- list's profits? (b) What is the value of the Lerner index at qm? (c) Find the efficient quantity and draw a graph depicting the deadweight loss under monopoly (d) What is the consumers' surplus under monopoly
Scenario 11.1 Maui Macadamia Inc. has a monopoly in the macadamia nut industry. The demand curve, marginal revenue and marginal cost curve for macadamia nuts are given as follows: P = 360 - 4Q; MR = 360 - 8Q; MC = 4Q 1. What level of output maximizes the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus? 2. What is the profit-maximizing level of output? 3. At the profit-maximizing level of output, what is the level of consumer surplus? 4. At...