The market demand curve for a commodity and the total cost for a monopoly firm producing the commodity are given in the schedules below.
Quantity |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Price |
52 |
44 |
37 |
31 |
26 |
22 |
19 |
16 |
13 |
Quantity |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Price |
10 |
60 |
90 |
100 |
102 |
105 |
109 |
115 |
125 |
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
(a)
Quantity |
Price/AR |
TR = P * Q |
MR = TRn- TRn-1 |
TC (Rs) |
MC = TCn-TCn-1 |
0 |
52 |
0 |
- |
10 |
- |
1 |
44 |
44 |
44 |
60 |
50 |
2 |
37 |
74 |
30 |
90 |
40 |
3 |
31 |
93 |
19 |
100 |
10 |
4 |
26 |
104 |
11 |
102 |
2 |
5 |
22 |
110 |
6 |
105 |
3 |
6 |
19 |
114 |
4 |
109 |
4 |
7 |
16 |
112 |
-2 |
115 |
6 |
8 |
13 |
104 |
-8 |
125 |
10 |
(b)MR equals MC at the 6th unit of output i.e., 4.
(c) At equilibrium, MR equals MC, and right here MR equals MC on the sixth unit of output, wherein MC is upward sloping. Hence, the equilibrium price is Rs 19.
(d) TR = Rs 114
TC =Rs 109
general earnings = TR - TC
= Rs 114 – 109 = Rs five
Hence, income is the same as Rs 5 .
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:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
Marginal Revenue |
100 |
90 |
80 |
70 |
60 |
50 |
40 |
30 |
20 |
10 |
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:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Marginal Revenue |
10 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
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?
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 why the demand curve facing a firm under monopolistic competition is negatively sloped.
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 do the equilibrium price and the quantity of a commodity change when the price of input used in its production changes?
Why is the short-run marginal cost curve 'U'-shaped?
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What is a production possibility frontier?
When does a production function satisfy decreasing returns to scale?
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
Why does the SMC curve cut the AVC curve at the minimum point of the AVC curve?
Explain the concept of a production function
What do the long-run marginal cost and the average cost curves look like?
Explain through a diagram the effect of a rightward shift of both the demand and supply curves on equilibrium price and quantity.