Regulations: · This assignment is an individual assignment to be submitted in a word file. · Students are encouraged to use their own words. · Students must follow APA style guidelines. · Support your...

1 answer below »
Please follow APA style and keep the questions.


Regulations: · This assignment is an individual assignment to be submitted in a word file. · Students are encouraged to use their own words. · Students must follow APA style guidelines. · Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook, along with at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. · A mark of zero is awarded for any submission that includes copying from other resources without proper referencing it. · It is strongly encouraged that the student submits his/her assignment into the Safe Assignment Originality Check before sending it to your instructor for grading. Q1. Firms in oligopoly must constantly think in terms of how other firms in the industry will react to whatever they do. Why do they have to do this? Why is it that firms in perfect competition and in monopoly don’t have to worry about how other firms will react? (5 Marks) Q2. Governments are frequently tempted to introduce price ceilings in markets. Use an example to explain why this is not such a good idea, at least when markets are competitive. Give some ideas as to what the government could do instead in order to help consumers in these markets. (5 Marks) Q3. If perfectly competitive firms are price takers, and monopolistic, monopolistic competitive, and oligopolistic firms are price searchers, then it follows that three times as many firms in the real world are price searchers than are price takers. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer. (5 Marks) Q4. Critically analyze the following statement with views of your own: “There is no substitute for an airline pilot: Someone has to fly the plane. Therefore, an increase in the wage of airline pilots will not change the number of pilots used by the airlines.”(5 Marks) Note: For all your answers support your views/opinions with at least two to three scholarly references, and a word count of 400-500 words for each answer. Learning Resource: Chapters 7, 8 & 10 of the Text Book O’Sullivan, A., Sheffrin, S. M., & Perez, S.J. (2014).Survey of Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools. (6th).Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Print version: ISBN-10: 0-13-294885-0 or ISBN-13: 978-0-13-294885-2.Digital version: ISBN-13:978-0-13-13-9370-7. End of Page
Answered Same DayJul 10, 2021

Answer To: Regulations: · This assignment is an individual assignment to be submitted in a word file. ·...

Nishtha answered on Jul 11 2021
142 Votes
Running Head: MICRO ECONOMICS                            1
MICRO ECONOMICS        5
MICRO ECONOMICS
Q1. Firms in oligopoly must constantly think in terms of how other firms in the indust
ry will react to whatever they do. Why do they have to do this? Why is it that firms in perfect competition and in monopoly don’t have to worry about how other firms will react? (5 Marks)
Oligopoly is that market structure, where there are very few firms producing products. These few firms collude to set both price and output level for market in order to maximize the profits. The colluding firm acts like a monopoly. The firms somehow, reduce their individual output in order to equate collective to monopolist, allow them earning higher profits. As stated by Yang, Ng and Ni (2017), firms in oligopoly market constantly think about other firm’s action because the firm does not only get affect by its own production decisions but also decisions of other firms. In monopoly market, firms are price marker. They produce those kinds of goods, which do not have perfect substitute (O’Sullivan, Sheffrin & Perez, 2014). That is the reason, why they do not care about other firm’s price. On the other hand, in a perfect competition, firms are selling identical products. The contribution of one seller in total suppliers is almost negligible.
Q2. Governments are frequently tempted to introduce price ceilings in markets. Use an example to explain why this is not such a good idea, at least when markets are competitive. Give some ideas as to what the government could do instead in order to help consumers in these markets. (5 Marks)
A price ceiling is an...
SOLUTION.PDF

Answer To This Question Is Available To Download

Related Questions & Answers

More Questions »

Submit New Assignment

Copy and Paste Your Assignment Here