The Figure Given Below Shows the Revenue and Cost Curves

question 57

Multiple Choice

The figure given below shows the revenue and cost curves of a monopolistically competitive firm.Figure 12.4
MR: Marginal revenue curve
ATC: Average total cost curve
MC: Marginal cost curve
-Because of their brand names, Kodak, IBM, Honda, Daimler-Chrysler, and other well-known firms are able to charge significantly higher prices for their products than their competitors without losing any business. Expenditures made by firms to create brand names:

• A)are always inefficient.
• B)provide reliability to consumers.
• C)lead to monopolies.
• D)necessarily lead to deadweight losses.
• E)would not exist if information was less costly for firms to obtain than consumers.

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