Class 12 Micro Economics - Chapter Non-competitive Markets NCERT Solutions | What is the value of the MR when the dem

List the three different ways in which oligopoly firms may have.

Will the monopolist firm continue to produce in the short run if a loss is incurred at the best short run level of output?

A monopoly firm has a total fixed cost of Rs 100 and has the following demand schedule:

Find the short run equilibrium quantity, price and total profit. What would be the equilibrium in the long run? In case the total cost is Rs.1000, describe the equilibrium in the short run and in the long run.

Comment on the shape of MR curve in case when TR curve is a

(a) Positively sloped straight line

(b) Horizontal straight line

From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:

If duo poly behavior is one that is described by Cornet, the market demand curve is given by the equation q = 200 - 4p and both the firms have zero costs, find the quantity supplied by each firm in equilibrium and the equilibrium market price. 

What is meant by prices being rigid? How can oligopoly behavior lead to such an outcome? 

The market demand curve for a commodity and the total cost for a monopoly firm producing the commodity are given in the schedules below. 

Use the information given to calculate the following:

(a) The MIR and MC schedules

(b) The quantities for which MIR and MC are equal

(c) The equilibrium quantity of output and the equilibrium price of the commodity

(d) The total revenue, total cost and total profit in the equilibrium

What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?

(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?

(b) A horizontal line?

If the monopolist firm of Exercise 3 was a public sector firm. The government set a rule for its manager to accept the government fixed price as given (i.e. to be a price taker and therefore behave as a firm in a perfectly competitive market). And the government has decided to set the price so that demand and supply in the market are equal. What would be the equilibrium price, quantity and profit in this case?

Explain the concept of a production function

Explain market equilibrium.

Discuss the central problems of an economy.

What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?

What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?

What is the total product of input?

When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?

What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?

How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?

What is budget line?

How is the optimal amount of labor determined in a perfectly competitive market?

Consider the demand for a good. At price Rs 4, the demand for the good is 25 units. Suppose the price of the good increases to Rs 5, and as a result, the demand for the good falls to 20 units. Calculate the price elasticity.

What happens to the budget set if both the prices as well as the income double?

What do you mean by an ‘inferior good’? Give some examples

Can there be a positive level of output that a profit-maximising firm produces in a competitive market at which market price is not equal to marginal cost? Give an explanation.

Suppose there are two consumers in the market for a good and their demand functions are as follows:

d1(p) = 20 – p for any price less than or equal to 20, and d1(p) = 0 at any price greater than 20.

d2(p) = 30 – 2p for any price less than or equal to 15 and d1(p) = 0 at any price greater than 15.

Find out the market demand function.

What do you mean by ‘monotonic preferences’?

How does an increase in the price of an input affect the supply curve of a firm?

What do you mean by complements? Give examples of two goods which are complements of each other.

What are the total fixed cost, total variable cost and total cost of a firm? How are they related?