An important similarity between a monopolistically competitive firm and a purely competitive firm is that:
A. both face perfectly elastic demand schedules.
B. economic profit tends toward zero for both.
C. both realize productive efficiency.
D. both realize allocative efficiency.
Answer: B
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What is a factor market?
A) It is a market where financial instruments are traded. B) It is a market where resources used to produce final goods are traded. C) It is a market where stocks and bonds are traded. D) It is a market where producers buy consumption and capital goods.
Which of the following is false?
a. A true or pure monopoly exists where there is only one seller of a product for which no close substitute is available. b. The situation in which one large firm can provide the output of the market at a lower cost than two or more smaller firms is called a natural monopoly. c. In monopoly, the market demand curve may be regarded as the demand curve for the firm because it is the market for that particular product. d. A monopoly firm is a price maker, and it will pick a price that is the highest point on its demand curve.