Question: thanks here is the question please help!!! Question 2 (15 marks) Consider a monopolistically competitive market for good X produced by rm A facing a

thanks here is the question please help!!!

thanks here is the question please help!!! Question 2 (15 marks) Consider

Question 2 (15 marks) Consider a monopolistically competitive market for good X produced by rm A facing a demand function P = 1000 3Q. Firm A's marginal cost and average total cost at a production level Q are respectively 4-0000 MC = 40 and arc = +40. a) What is the short-run economic prot or decit for rm A? (4 marks) b) Your student cements that in the long run rm A will earn zero economics prot, and therefore there is no deadweight loss in this market. Do you agree? Explain briey in terms of the concept of Pareto efficiency. (4 marks) Now, the market for good X is changed into an oligopoly market. And good X is produced by rm A and B, which face a demand function P = 1000 5Q. Firm A's marginal cost and average total cost at a production level Q are respectively MC =40 and ATC =%+4Q. Firm B's marginal cost and average total cost at a production level Q are respectively MC =60 and ATC =%+6Q. c) What is the market supply curve for good X? (1 mark) d) What is the market price and market output for good X if rm A and B cooperates as a cartel? (2 marks) e) What is the output and prot of rm A and B respectively, if they cooperate as a cartel? (4 marks)

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