"Because of rent seeking, a monopoly may end up earning a normal profit." Is the previous statement correct or incorrect? Why?

What will be an ideal response?

The statement is correct. Competition among rent seekers might cause the successful person striving to create a monopoly to pay so much in order to create the monopoly that, when taking into account the cost of creating the monopoly, the person earns only a normal profit.

Economics

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a. inelastic; inelastic b. elastic; inelastic c. inelastic; elastic d. elastic; elastic

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Explain the relationship displayed on the graph based on a risk level of X. Use the other capital letters on the graph to identify: (a) the average expected return for a risk-free asset; (b) the average expected return for a market portfolio with a risk level of X; (c) the compensation for time preference for a risk-free asset; and (d) the risk premium for the market portfolio’s risk level of X.

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