Explain the problem encountered by successive monopolies? How can the supplier and the producer overcome this problem?
Successive monopolies face the problem of double marginalization whereby the joint profits of the firms are lower if they operate independently than if they cooperate. They can solve the problem by merging or devising a contract. Under such an agreement the producer would agree to transfer a portion of his/her profit to the supplier.
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a. there is an unintended inventory accumulation. b. there is an unintended inventory shortfall. c. aggregate demand is less than output. d. Both b and c
In the 1980s, marginal tax rates on high income taxpayers fell from 70 to 28 percent. Tax revenues coming from the top 1 percent of income earners _____
a. fell as a percentage of income b. fell in total, but not as a percentage of income taxes paid by all taxpayers c. fell compared to middle-class taxpayers d. increased as a percentage of income taxes paid by all taxpayers