If There Is Allocative Efficiency in a Purely Competitive Market

question 40

Multiple Choice

If there is allocative efficiency in a purely competitive market for a product, the maximum price consumers are willing to pay is

• A) less than marginal benefit.
• B) greater than marginal cost.
• C) equal to the amount of efficiency or deadweight losses.
• D) equal to the minimum price producers are willing to accept.

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