Why Is Monopolies Harmful And How Can Regulation Ameliorate These Harmful Effects?
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Why Is Monopolies Harmful and How Can Regulation Ameliorate These Harmful
Why is monopoly ‘harmful? How can regulation ameliorate these harmful effects?
What problems confront the regulators?
In order to deduce that a monopoly is ‘harmful', there must be another market
system which is preferabl ....
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.... that monopolies produce at a lower level output and charge a higher
price than under perfect competition in both the short run and the long run.
Consider the diagram above. Assume that this monopolist attempts to maximise
profits. Equating MC=MR yields an output of Qm and a price of Pm. If the same
industry existed under perfect competition however, the price would be Ppc and
output would be Qpc since under perfect competition P=MC=AR. The price in such a
situation would thus be lower tha ....
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