Answer the following questions, which relate to measures of concentration: a. What is the meaning of a

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Answer the following questions, which relate to measures of concentration:
a. What is the meaning of a four-firm concentration ratio of 60 percent? 90 percent? What are the shortcomings of concentration ratios as measures of monopoly power?
b. Suppose that the five firms in industry A have annual sales of 30, 30, 20, 10, and 10 percent of total industry sales. For the five firms in industry B, the figures are 60, 25, 5, 5, and 5 percent. Calculate the Herfindahl index for each industry and compare their likely competitiveness.

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Economics

ISBN: 978-0073375694

18th edition

Authors: Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean M. Flynn

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