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What happens to a monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its product?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What happens to monopolistic competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its product?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What happens to a monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for it's product?
Consumers will substitute a rival's product.
What best protect firm form being forced to sell its product unfairly low prices?
A strong government BEST protects a firm from being forced to sell its product at an unfairly low price.
How can a monopolist charge different prices to different customers?
A monopolist has market power, this means that they can set the market price of a good through restricting output. A monopolist can charge different prices to different customers through price discrimination. Assumptions are made that they monopolists objective is to maximise profits. A monopolists profit maximising strategy is to charge different prices to different consumers varying on the price elasticity between them. This will extract the maximum consumer surplus, and thus maximise profits. To price discrimiate there must also be some degree of barriers to prevent consumers for switching suppliers. A common strategy of price discrimination is giving students a discount, this is because students are normally more sensitive to prices due to their low income. Students may only buy a product if a discount is given, so the firm provides a discount in order to make these sales.
What happens to a monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its product?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What happens to monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its product?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What happens to monopolistic competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its product?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What is a negative feature of a free market?
Businesses may charge their own prices and may also form monolpolies. Without government regulation, a single firm could control one product and charge the consumer higher than what it is worth to maximize its own profit. (especially if the product is considered essential for living)
What happens to a monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for it's product?
Consumers will substitute a rival's product.
What is a negative feature of free-marketing economy?
Businesses may charge their own prices and may also form monolpolies. Without government regulation, a single firm could control one product and charge the consumer higher than what it is worth to maximize its own profit. (especially if the product is considered essential for living)
What best protect firm form being forced to sell its product unfairly low prices?
A strong government BEST protects a firm from being forced to sell its product at an unfairly low price.
What firms could raise prices and expect an increase in revenus?
a firm whose product has an elasticity of 0.31
How can a monopolist charge different prices to different customers?
A monopolist has market power, this means that they can set the market price of a good through restricting output. A monopolist can charge different prices to different customers through price discrimination. Assumptions are made that they monopolists objective is to maximise profits. A monopolists profit maximising strategy is to charge different prices to different consumers varying on the price elasticity between them. This will extract the maximum consumer surplus, and thus maximise profits. To price discrimiate there must also be some degree of barriers to prevent consumers for switching suppliers. A common strategy of price discrimination is giving students a discount, this is because students are normally more sensitive to prices due to their low income. Students may only buy a product if a discount is given, so the firm provides a discount in order to make these sales.
What does Creaming the market mean?
Creaming the market is when a firm or business may charge a very high price for a certain product. The firm will continue to charge a very high price until rival products appear.
What happens to a monopolistically competitive firm that begins to charge an excessive price for its products?
Consumers will substitute with a rival's product.
What are three different approaches a firm might use to set prices for customers different geographical areas?
A firm might use a personal survey approach to help them set prices for customers of different geographical areas. They might also use a market research study. The really aggressive firm is going to call potential customers themselves and ask what they would pay for certain items.
