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

question 151

True/False

Productive efficiency does not hold for a profit-maximizing, 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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Definitions:

Producer Surplus

The difference between the amount that producers are willing and able to sell a good for and the actual amount they receive in the market.

Economic Rent

Income derived from the possession of a unique resource, exceeding that which is needed to keep the resource in its current employment.

Economic Profit

The profit from producing goods and services while considering both explicit and implicit costs, including opportunity costs.

Producer Surplus

The gap between the price that sellers are prepared to accept for a product and the real price it sells for in the market.