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The Welfare Loss from Monopoly People’s purchase decisions don’t reflect the true cost to society because monopolies charge a price higher than marginal cost.TRANSCRIPT
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Monopoly 2Bad things that monopolist do!
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Laugher CurveThe First Law of Economics:
For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economics:They're both wrong.
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The Welfare Loss from Monopoly People’s purchase decisions don’t reflect
the true cost to society because monopolies charge a price higher than marginal cost.
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The Welfare Loss from Monopoly The marginal cost of increasing output is
lower than the marginal benefit of increasing output.
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The Welfare Loss from Monopoly The welfare loss of a monopolist is
represented by the triangles B and D.
The welfare loss is often called the deadweight loss or welfare loss triangle.
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A
CPM
DB
MC
MR DQM
PC
QC0
Price
Quantity
The Welfare Loss from Monopoly
McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
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The Price-Discriminating Monopolist Price discrimination is the ability to
charge different prices to different individuals or groups of individuals.
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The Price-Discriminating Monopolist* In order to price discriminate, a monopolist
must be able to:
Identify groups of customers who have different elasticities of demand;
Separate them in some way; and Limit their ability to resell its product between
groups.
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The Price-Discriminating Monopolist A price-discriminating monopolist can
increase both output and profit.
It can charge customers with more inelastic demands a higher price.
It can charge customers with more elastic demands a lower price.
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Price Discrimination Occurs in the Real World Movie theaters give senior citizens and
child discounts. All airline Super Saver fares include
Saturday night stopovers. Automobiles are seldom sold at their
sticker price. Theaters have midweek special rates.
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Price Discrimination Occurs in the Real World Retail tire stores run special sales about
half the time.
Restaurants generally make most of their profit on alcoholic drinks and just break even on food.
College-town stores often give students discounts.
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Barriers to Entry and Monopoly Monopolies exist because of some barrier
to entry. Barrier to entry – a social, political, or
economic impediment that prevents firms from entering the market.
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Barriers to Entry and Monopoly If there were no barriers to entry, profit-
maximizing firms would always compete away monopoly profits.
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Barriers to Entry and Monopoly Three important barriers to entry are
natural ability, increasing returns to scale, and government restrictions.
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Natural Ability One firm may be more efficient than other
firms because it is better at producing a good than those other firms making it.
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Natural Ability The public views “just monopolies” as
those which accrue to the firm because of the firm’s ability.
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Economies of Scale If significant economies of scale are
possible, it is inefficient to have two producers.
If each produced half of the output, neither could take advantage of economies of scale.
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Economies of Scale* A natural monopoly is an industry in
which one firm can produce at a lower cost than can two or more firms.
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Economies of Scale A natural monopoly will occur when
indivisible set up costs are so large that average total costs fall within the range of potential output.
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Economies of Scale* There is no welfare loss in the natural
monopoly situation.
There can actually be a welfare gain because a single firm is so much more efficient than several firms producing the good.
This can be debated!
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0 Quantity
Aver
age
Cost
A Natural Monopolist
C3
C2
C1
Q⅓
ATC
Q½ Q1
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Loss
Natural Monopoly
Ave
rage
Cos
t
•A natural monopolist produces QM and charges PM and earns a profit.
QM QC0 QuantityMR D
PM
PC
CC
CM
ATCMC
Profit
•If the government regulates a competitive solution where P=MC, the monopolist charges PC and produces QC for a loss.
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A Natural Monopolist
Loss
MR D
PM
PC
CC
CM
QM QC
ATCMC
0 Quantity
Aver
age
Cost
Profit
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Government Restrictions Monopolies can be created by
government.
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Normative Views of Monopoly The public generally views monopolies the
way the Classical economists did – they consider them unfair and wrong.
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Normative Views of Monopoly The public accepts patents which are a
type of government-created monopoly.
Patent – a legal protection of a technical innovation that gives the person holding the patent a monopoly on using that innovation for a specified period of time.
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Normative Views of Monopoly The public does not like the distributional
effects of monopoly.
They believe that it transfers income from “deserving” consumers to “undeserving” monopolists.
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Normative Views of Monopoly It is possible for the well-financed and the
well-connected to garner government favors.
The public prefers that firms do “productive” things rather than lobby for government favors.
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Government Policy and Monopoly: AIDS Drugs* What, should the government do?
Should it force the producer to charge a price equal to its marginal cost.
Doing so would create a significant disincentive for drug companies to do further research on other life-threatening diseases.
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Government Policy and Monopoly: AIDS Drugs The government could buy the patents.
Payment would come from increased taxes and would be quite expensive.
The cost of regulation would drop, but it would raise the question as to which patents the government should buy.
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SummaryMonopoly is a market structure, protected
by barriers to entry, in which a single firm produces a product for which there are no close substitutes.
A monopolist maximizes profit or minimizes losses where MR=MC.
To determine a monopolist’s profit or loss: Find output where MR=MC. Determine price and ATC at that output. Profit or loss = (P – ATC) * Q.
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Summary Monopoly output is lower and price is
higher than in competitive markets. Because monopolies reduce output and
charge P > MC, monopolies create a welfare loss for society.
A price-discriminating monopolist earns more profit than a normal monopolist by charging a higher price to those with less elastic demand and a lower price to those with more elastic demand.
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Summary In order to discriminate a monopolist must:
Identify and separate groups of customers with different elasticities of demand.
Limit their ability to resell its product between groups.
Three important barriers to entry are: Natural ability Increasing returns to scale Government restrictions
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Summary Natural monopolies exist in industries with strong
economies of scale, so it is more efficient for one firm to produce the entire output.
In a natural monopoly the competitive outcome where P=MC results in losses.
Normative arguments against monopoly are: Monopolies are inconsistent with freedom. Distributional effects of monopoly are unfair. Monopolies encourage people to waste time and money
trying to get monopolies.
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Output Price Total Marginal Marginal Average Profit Revenue Revenue Cost Total Cost
0 $20 ______ ----- ----- ----- ______
1 18 ______ _______ $ 7 $17 ______
2 16 ______ ______ 5 11 ______
3 14 ______ ______ 6 9.33 ______
4 12 ______ ______ 12 10 ______
5 10 ______ ______ 15 11 ______
10
Review Question 12-1 Given the following demand and cost information, complete the table and find the profit-maximizing price and output.
$ 0
18
$-10
50
48
42
32
18
14
6
2 -5
8
14
10
1
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Review Question 12-2 Show the equilibrium output, price , and profit from question 12-1 on a graph.
Price
Profit = $14
$20
15
10
5
Quantity1 2 3 4 5
14
MC
D
ATC
MR
MR = MC between3 and 4 units, so the monopolist maximizesprofit at Q = 3 and P = $14Profit = (P-ATC)*QProfit = (14-9.33)*3=$14 9.33