Monitoring a Monopoly to Keep It Efficient Would Itself Be

question 72

Multiple Choice

Monitoring a monopoly to keep it efficient would itself be efficient if the extra profit achieved by:

• A) raising production costs is less than the costs of monitoring.
• B) raising production costs exceeds the costs of monitoring.
• C) reducing production costs is less than the costs of monitoring.
• D) reducing production costs exceeds the costs of monitoring.

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