When a natural monopoly is regulated using an average cost pricing rule, what can you say about the firm's profit and the market's efficiency?
What will be an ideal response?
Using an average cost pricing rule, the monopoly is making zero economic profit. However, there is an inefficient quantity of output produced so that the market is inefficient and there is a deadweight loss.
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