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1. The city's Water and Sewer provider is a regulated natural monopoly that has a cost function, ...
A local electric utility provider is a considered by regulators to be a natural monopoly. It has fixed costs of $100 million and a constant marginal cost of $0.25 per KWH. Its demand curve is linear: ?=160−0.00001? where ? is the price per KWH and Q is the quantity demanded by consumers in KWH per year. a. Confirm that this utility provider is a natural monopoly. [HINT: It might be helpful to use Excel for this exercise.] b. Find the...
1. Suppose that demand is given by P=100-Q, marginal revenue is MR=100-2Q, and marginal cost (and average cost) is constant at 20. a. What single price will maximize a monopolist's profit? b. What will be the prices and quantity under two-part pricing? It involves a lump sum fee (e.g., membership fee) equal to the consumer surplus at competitive prices and user fees (i.e., unit price) equal to the competitive price. c. Now the monopolist has another group of consumers whose...
7. A monopolist in the market for widgets is facing a demand curve P= 60 - Q. The marginal cost of producing Q units is equal to $Q. (a) Calculate the monopolist's profit maximizing price and quantity. Calculate producer, consumer, and total surplus, and deadweight loss. (b) The government wants to impose a price ceiling that will maximize the total surplus in the market. What price ceiling should the government set? What would be the new values of consumer and...
Suppose a profit maximizing monopolist has total cost and marginal cost as follow:1. Suppose a profit-maximizing monopolist has total cost and marginal cost as follow: \(\mathrm{TC}=0.1 Q^{2}+Q+10\) and \(\mathrm{MC}=0.2 Q+1\). It faces the demand curve \(\mathrm{Q}=35-5^{\mathrm{P}} .(35\) points \()\)a) What are the price, output, and profit for this monopolist?b) Carefully draw the diagram that illustrates your answers.c) What are the equilibrium price, output, and total profit if this is a perfectly competitive market?d) Compare the results between monopoly and perfect...
Suppose a profit-maximizing monopolist has total cost and marginal cost as follow. TC =8Q + 10 and MC = 8. It faces the demand curve P=20-1/5Q. What is the equilibrium price and output? What is the total profit? Calculate the consumer surplus, producer surplus, and deadweight loss if the firm acts as a monopolist. Illustrate your answer with a diagram. Calculate the consumer surplus, producer surplus, and deadweight loss if the firm acts as a perfectly price-discriminated monopolist. Illustrate your answer with a diagram.
Problem 3: A market with a monopoly producer has inverse demand P = 120 - 2Q (which gives marginal revenue MR = 120 - 4Q). The monopolist has marginal costs are MCQ) = 4Q and no fixed costs. a) What is the monopolist's producer surplus when it charges the profit maximizing uniform price. b) What is the deadweight loss due to monopoly in this market? c) What would the monopolist's producer surplus be if it could engage in first degree...
How do I solve this problem? 4. Benson's Park is a monopolist in the local camping market in the town of West Anderson. They face an inverse demand curve given by P-400-8Q, where Q is the number of tickets they sell. The park's cost function is C(Q)-100+160 Write down Benson's profit function (2 point) Find the first-order condition for profit maximization. (2 points) Find the profit-maximizing price and quantity, and the maximum profit. (3 points) a. b. c. d. Calculate...
1. A monopolist has costs given by C = Q and faces demand curve P = 12 - Q. a. Provide a labeled diagram that shows the monopolist's MC, AC, P and MR curves. b. Illustrate and calculate the profit maximizing level of output, price and profits. Calculate the elasticity of demand at the monopoly equilibrium price. Confirm that MR =P(1 + 1/n] d. illustrate and calculate the efficiency loss. e. Calculate the per-unit subsidy required to eliminate the efficiency...
Demand: P= 120 - 0.5 Q Total Cost: TC= 1 Q 2 Part 1: Find the profit-Maximizing Q of the Monopoly Part 2: Find The profit-Maximizing price of the Monopoly Part 3: Find the Total Profit at the profit maximizing quantity Part 4: Find the amount of consumer surplus at the profit maximizing quantity Part 5: Find the deadweight loss at the profit maximizing quantity
Problem 3: Natural Monopoly Regulation. A natural monopolist faces a demand curve P = 100-Q. The monopolist a constant marginal cost MC = 20 and an average cost AC = 20 + 800 a) In an unregulated market, what price will the monopolist charge? What is the DWL associated with this allocation? b) Suppose that a regulator imposes marginal cost regulation by setting P = 20. How many units will the monopoly sell? What is the DWL associated with this...