Rich Uncle Pennybags is the only seller of board games in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The inverse
Question:
Rich Uncle Pennybags is the only seller of board games in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The inverse demand curve for board games is given by where Q is in hundreds of games per month. Rich Uncle Pennybags’ marginal cost of producing board games is.
a. If Rich Uncle Pennybags cannot price-discriminate, what is his profit-maximizing level of output? What is his profit-maximizing price?
b. How much consumer surplus will buyers of board games receive? How much producer surplus will end up in Uncle Pennybags’ pockets? How much deadweight loss is created by the board game monopoly?
c. Suppose Uncle Pennybags is a magnificent salesman, able to discern perfectly his customers’ willingness to pay. If he leverages this information to begin perfectly price discriminating, how many board games will he sell?
d. How much surplus will buyers receive from a perfectly price-discriminating Uncle Pennybags? How much producer surplus will Uncle Pennybags capture? What will the deadweight loss due to monopoly be?
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Microeconomics
ISBN: 9781319105563
3rd Edition
Authors: Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson