When a Profit-Maximizing Firm in a Monopolistically Competitive Market Charges

question 212

Multiple Choice

When a profit-maximizing firm in a monopolistically competitive market charges a price higher than marginal cost,

• A)the firm must be earning a positive economic profit.
• B)the firm may be incurring economic losses
• C)there is a deadweight loss to society, but it is exactly offset by the benefit of excess capacity.
• D)new firms will enter the market in the long run.

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Definitions:

P-Value

The possibility of encountering test findings at least as significant as the observed results, assuming the validity of the null hypothesis.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, where data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Sample

A subset of individuals from within a larger population used to approximate characteristics of the whole population.

Poisson Probabilities

The likelihood of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming the events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.