With Rent Seeking by a Monopoly

question 155

Multiple Choice

With rent seeking by a monopoly

• A) the monopolist's average total costs will increase so that its average total cost curve is tangent to the demand curve at the profit-maximizing price.
• B) a monopoly uses all of what would be its economic profit to prevent other firms from taking its economic rent.
• C) the full deadweight loss of monopoly is larger than in the absence of rent seeking.
• D) All of the above answers are correct.

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