The Problem with Adopting a Fair-Return Pricing Policy for a Natural

question 7

Multiple Choice

The problem with adopting a fair-return pricing policy for a natural monopoly is that

• A) economic profits will be positive.
• B) economic profits will be negative.
• C) it is not productively efficient.
• D) it is not allocatively efficient.

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