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Each of the following firms possesses market power. Explain its source. a. Merck, the producer of the patented cholesterollowering drug Zetia b. WaterWorks, a provider of piped water c. Chiquita, a supplier of bananas and owner of most banana plantations d. The Walt Disney Company, the creators of Mickey Mouse
Use the following list, which gives some information about seven firms, to answer Problems 10 and 11 An airline company cuts ticket price to increase its market share. A single firm, has a significant portion of a key resource needed to manufacture a medicine that has no close substitutes. A barrier to entry exists, but the good has some close substitutes. A firm offers discounts on every Saturday. A firm will lose most of its customers if it increases the price of its product. The government issues a state-owned firm an exclusive license to produce oil. A power station experiences economies of scale even when it supplies electricity to all the residents in a city. Which of the seven cases are natural monopolies and which are legal monopolies? Which can price discriminate, which cannot, and why?
Hydro One is a monopoly in the market for electricity transmission in Ontario. Hydro One owns a lot of infrastructure, which was very costly to build. However, marginal costs of providing electricity services are very low. Which of the following factors best explains Hydro One's monopoly power? 1 options: Technological superiority Economies of scale Copyright protection Network externalities Markets can supply the efficient quantity of a good only if: options: It's a private good It's a private or public good It's a private good or a common resource It's a private or artificially scarce good Which of the following industries described is most likely perfectly competitive? options: In the cellphone market, the market share of the two main companies combined equals 70%. However, there are other producers in the market as well. Electricity in the province is distributed by one state-owned corporation, which also also sets the electricity distribution price. There are two producers of diamonds in the world and diamonds are sold in many different countries The price of blueberries is determined by global supply and demand. A small share of the global supply is produced by Canadian farmers.
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