Questions from Managerial Economics


Q: Based on the following graph (which summarizes the demand, marginal

Based on the following graph (which summarizes the demand, marginal revenue, and relevant costs for your product), determine your firm’s optimal price, output, and the resulting prof...

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Q: You are the manager of a firm that charges customers $16

You are the manager of a firm that charges customers $16 per unit for the first unit purchased and $12 per unit for each additional unit purchased in excess of one unit. The accompanying graph summari...

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Q: You are the manager of a monopoly that sells a product to

You are the manager of a monopoly that sells a product to two groups of consumers in different parts of the country. Analysts at your firm have determined that group 1’s elasticity of demand is −3, wh...

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Q: You are the manager of a firm that sells a “commodity

You are the manager of a firm that sells a “commodity” in a market that resembles perfect competition, perfect competition, and your analytics team estimates that your cost function is C(Q) = 2Q + 3Q2...

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Q: Based only on the knowledge that the premerger market share of two

Based only on the knowledge that the premerger market share of two firms proposing to merge was 30 percent each, an economist working for the Justice Department was able to determine that, if approved...

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Q: A risk-neutral consumer is deciding whether to purchase a homogeneous

A risk-neutral consumer is deciding whether to purchase a homogeneous product from one of two firms. One firm produces an unreliable product and the other a reliable product. At the time of the sale,...

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Q: You are a bidder in an independent private values auction, and

You are a bidder in an independent private values auction, and you value the object at $3,000. Each bidder perceives that valuations are uniformly distributed between $1,500 and $9,000. Determine your...

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Q: You are one of five risk-neutral bidders participating in an

You are one of five risk-neutral bidders participating in an independent private values auction. Each bidder perceives that all other bidders’ valuations for the item are evenly distributed between $3...

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Q: The text points out that asymmetric information can have deleterious effects on

The text points out that asymmetric information can have deleterious effects on market outcomes. a. Explain how asymmetric information about a hidden action or a hidden characteristic can lead to mora...

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Q: An advertisement in the local paper offers a “fully loaded”

An advertisement in the local paper offers a “fully loaded” car that is only six months old and has only been driven 5,000 miles at a price that is 20 percent lower than the average selling price of a...

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