--%>
Assignment Help - homework help

Efficiency of monopolistic competition

Defenders of the efficiency of monopolistic competition are mainly persuasive when they insist which: (w) consumers benefit greatly from product differentiation. (x) any inefficiency is far less harmful than that of pure monopoly. (y) pure competition leads to unstable "cutthroat" competition. (z) economies of scale make product differentiation inevitable.

Can anybody suggest me the proper explanation for given problem regarding Economics generally?

   Related Questions in Microeconomics

  • Q : Find price elasticity of demand for

    Suppose yearly steel sales double to 80 million tons while the price falls $40 per ton, to $180 per ton. Therefore price elasticity of demand for steel is approximately: (w) 3.333. (x) 10.000. (y) 2.500. (z) 6.667.

    Q : Economic profits by competitive

    Economic profits produce competitive pressures which cause: (w) each firm’s output to shrink during the short run. (x) an industry’s output to increase. (y) market prices to increase. (z) firms to leave an industry.

    Q : Market Power and Monopsony Power Assume

    Assume that a firm with the market power in output market wishes to grow and that hiring more workers needs it to increase salaries 8 percent for all the workers. The output prices will most likely: (i) Increase 8 percent to cover the wage rise. (ii) Increase less tha

    		•
  • Q : Problem on effect of a price decrease

    1. Is it possible for any country to have made gains in access (at the expense of quality) of their rural healthcare system, without any gains in efficiency?  Explain using a PPF diagram.2. If the own price elasticity for a good is -2.5, what is the l

    		•
  • Q : Determining type of good An increase in

    An increase in the income of Consumer X leads to fall in demand for that good by that consumer. Name the good X termed? Answer: Inferior good

    		•
  • Q : Moral Hazard-Policies of promotion Can

    Can someone help me in finding out the right answer from the given options. The Moral hazards which produce shirking by employees can be partly remedied when firms adopt the policies of: (1) Efficiency salaries. (2) Hierarchical signaling. (3) Careful screening throug

    		•
  • Q : Rolls of Intermediaries Upon the

    Upon the average, all intermediaries do NOT: (w) decrease the opportunity costs of goods to consumers. (x) raise the incomes of producers. (y) reduce transaction costs. (z) increase the cost of living. Hey friends

    		•
  • Q : Effect of change in market price I have

    I have a problem in economics on Effect of change in market price. Please help me in the following question. The change in quantity demanded is: (1) Non-quantitative in nature. (2) Caused by the change in market price. (3) Shown by the shift of demand curve. (4) Irrel

    		•
  • Q : Perfect competition ‘In the real world

    ‘In the real world there is no industry which conforms precisely to the economist’s model of perfect competition. This means that the model is of little practical value

    		•
  • Q : Positive economic analysis and normative

    Which of the given two statements involves positive economic analysis and which normative? How do the two type of analysis differ?a. Gasoline rationing (allocating to each year to each individual an annual maximum amount of gasoline whi

    		•