PPT-Chapter 14 Monopoly What will you learn in this chapter?

What are the four barriers to entry Why monopolists are constrained by demand How monopolists set price and quantity What social welfare losses are associated with monopolies What the common public policy responses to monopolies are. 1. . Graphs and Tables Copyright . © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.. Antitrust policy. Main purpose. : prevent monopolization, promote competition, and achieve . allocative. Chapter 12 - Monopoly Goals: 2. The monopolist’s problem 3. Seeking more surplus Part 1: Price Discrimination Part 2: Bundling Goods. Sources of Monopoly Power.  Exclusive control ove Types of Market Structure. Four principal models of market structures:. Perfect Competition. Many producers sell identical product. Monopoly. Single producer sells a single, undifferentiated product. Monopoly. Opposite of PC. Occurs when output of entire industry is produced and sold by a single firm referred to as . Monopolist. Characteristics of . Pure Monopoly. Single supplier . – . the firm and the industry are the same.. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy. Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights . Reserved. Is Any Firm Ever Really a Monopoly?. We define . monopoly.. Monopoly. is a market structure consisting of a firm that is the only seller of a good or service that does not have a close substitute.. Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Is Any Firm Ever Really a Monopoly?. We define monopoly.. Monopoly. is a market structure consisting of a firm that is the only seller of a good or service that does not have a close substitute.. Slide 2 presents a table that can be printed for each student. For best results, use "landscape" page orientation.. Slides 3 through 10 plots and draws marginal revenue, marginal cost, average total cost, and average revenue (demand), respectively.. Pure (or Perfect). Competition. Pure Monopoly. Number of Firms. VERY large number of firms. Only ONE firm. The firm IS the industry. Price making abilities of individual firms. Each firm is so small that changes in its own output do not affect market price, i.e. firms are price takers. MARKET STRUCTURE . in which only . ONE . seller sells a product for which there are no close substitutes.. A monopoly is . A PRICE SETTER. , . RESTRICTS THE MARKET . and. IS THE ONLY SELLER.. Monopoly. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy. Copyright © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Outline. 15.1 . Is Any Firm Ever Really a Monopoly?. 15.2 . Where Do Monopolies Come From?. 15.3 . 12.1 Introducing a New Market Structure. 12.2 Sources of Market Power. 12.3 The Monopolist’s Problem. 12.4 Choosing the Optimal Quantity and Price. 12.5 The “Broken” Invisible Hand: . The Cost . What is a monopoly?. A monopoly forms when barriers prevent firms from entering a market that . has a single . supplier with close to no substitute goods. .. Monopoly markets only have one seller, whereas, perfectly competitive markets have multiple sellers.. DR. MRIGANKA DE SARKAR. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS. CONTACT: et_mit@yahoo.co.in. Monopoly: Why?. Natural monopoly (increasing returns to scale), e.g. (parts of) utility companies?. Artificial monopoly. Graph Time . Regular Monopoly . Natural Monopoly. Welfare Effects of Monopoly. Under a perfect competition the market price is the sales price leading to an efficient outcome, both productively and allocatively .