Which of the seven cases are natural monopolies and which are legal monopolies? Which can price discriminate,

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Which of the seven cases are natural monopolies and which are legal monopolies? Which can price discriminate, which cannot, and why?

■ An airline company cuts ticket prices to increase its market share.
■ A single firm controls 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 every Saturday.
■ A firm will lose most of its customers if it increases the price of its product.
■ The government issues an exclusive license to a state-owned firm to produce oil.
■ A power station experiences economies of scale even when it supplies electricity to all the residents in a city.

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Economics

ISBN: 9781292433639

14th Global Edition

Authors: Michael Parkin

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