Setting the Price Charged by a Natural Monopoly Equal to Zero

question 66

Multiple Choice

Setting the price charged by a natural monopoly equal to zero:

• A)generates economic losses.
• B)creates incentives that tend to shift average total cost curve upward.
• C)imposes a price that is more than average total cost.
• D)involves production at a socially inefficient level of output.
• E)generates a welfare cost for the society.

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