Productive Efficiency Does Not Hold for a Profit-Maximising, Monopolistically Competitive

question 91

True/False

Productive efficiency does not hold for a profit-maximising, monopolistically competitive firm in the long-run equilibrium because the firm operates along the diseconomies-of-scale region of its average total cost curve.

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