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CHAPTER 8 Managing in Competitive, Monopolistic, and Monopolistically Competitive Markets

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Chapter Outline

Chapter Overview

• Perfect competition

– Demand at the market and firm levels – Short-run output decisions – Long-run decisions

• Monopoly – – – –

Monopoly power Sources of monopoly power Maximizing profits Implications of entry barriers

– – – –

Conditions for monopolistic competition Profit maximization Long-run equilibrium Implications of product differentiation

• Monopolistic competition

• Optimal advertising decisions

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Introduction

Chapter Overview

• Chapter 7 examined the nature of industries, and saw that industries differ with respect to their structures, conducts and performances. • This chapter focuses on how managers determine the optimal price, quantity and advertising decisions in the following market environments: – Perfect competition. – Monopoly. – Monopolistic competition.

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Key Conditions

Perfect Competition

• Perfectly competitive markets are characterized by:

– The interaction between many buyers and sellers that are “small” relative to the market. – Each firm in the market produces a homogeneous (identical) product. – Buyers and sellers have perfect information. – No transaction costs. – Free entry into and exit from the market.

• The implications of these conditions are:

– a single market price is determined by the interaction of demand and supply – firms earn zero economic profits in the long run. 8-4

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Perfect Competition

Demand at the Market and Firm Levels In Action Price

Market

Price S

Firm

= D 0

Market output

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Short-Run Output Decisions

Perfect Competition

• The short run is a period of time over which some factors of production are fixed. • To maximize short-run profits, managers must take as given the fixed inputs (and fixed costs), and determine how much output to produce by changing the variable inputs.

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Perfect Competition

Short-Run Profit Maximization: Revenue-Cost Approach In Action Costs

$

Maximum profits Slope of

0

=

A

=

E



Revenue = ×

B Slope of

=

Firm’s output 8-7

Competitive Firm’s Demand

Perfect Competition

• The demand curve for a competitive firm’s product is a horizontal line at the market price. This price is the competitive firm’s marginal revenue. = =

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Perfect Competition

Short-Run Profit Maximization In Action $

=

Profit



0



=

Firm’s output 8-9

Competitive Output Rule

Perfect Competition

• To maximize profits, a perfectly competitive firm produces the output at which price equals marginal cost in the range over which marginal cost is increasing. =

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Competitive Output Rule In Action

Perfect Competition

• The cost function for a firm is = 5 + . If the firm sells output in a perfectly competitive market and other firms in the industry sell output at a price of $20, what price should the manager of this firm charge? What level of output should be produced to maximize profits? How much profit will be earned? • Answer: – Charge $20. – Since marginal cost is 2 , equating price and marginal cost yields: $20 = 2 ⟹ = 10 units. – Maximum profits are: = 20 × 10 − 5 + 10 = $95.

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Perfect Competition

$

Short-Run Loss Minimization In Action

Loss



0

=



=

Firm’s output 8-12

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Perfect Competition

The Shut-Down Case In Action

$

Loss if shut down



Fixed Cost



=

=

Loss if produce

0



Firm’s output 8-13

Short-Run Output Decision

Perfect Competition

• To maximize short-run profits, a perfectly competitive firm should produce in the range of increasing marginal cost where = , provided that ≥ . If < , the firm should shut down its plant to minimize it losses.

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Perfect Competition

Short-Run Firm Supply Curve In Action $

Short-run supply curve for individual firm

0

Firm’s output 8-15

Firm’s Short-Run Supply Curve

Perfect Competition

• The short-run supply curve for a perfectly competitive firm is its marginal cost curve above the minimum point on the curve.

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Market Supply Curve In Action

Perfect Competition

P

Individual firm’s supply curve

Market supply curve S

$12 $10 0

1

500

Market output 8-17

Long-Run Decisions: Entry and Exit In Action

Perfect Competition

Price

Price

Exit

Entry

0

D

Market output

0

=

=

=

=

=

=

Firm’s output 8-18

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Perfect Competition

Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium In Action $

Long-run competitive equilibrium

=

0



=

Firm’s output 8-19

Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium

Perfect Competition

• In the long run, perfectly competitive firms produce a level of output such that  

= =

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Monopoly and Monopoly Power

Monopoly

• A market structure in which a single firm serves an entire market for a good that has no close substitutes. • Sole seller of a good in a market gives that firm greater market power than if it competed against other firms. – Implication:

• market demand curve is the monopolist’s demand curve.

– However, a monopolist does not have unlimited market power.

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Monopolist’s Demand In Action

Monopoly

Monopolist’s power is constrained by the demand curve.

Price

A B = 0

Output 8-22

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• • • •

Sources of Monopoly Power

Monopoly

Economies of scale Economies of scope Cost complementarity Patents and other legal barriers

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Elasticity of Demand and Total Revenues In Action

Price

Revenue

Maximum revenues ×

Elastic

Unitary

Unitary Inelastic

0

Elastic D

MR

Q

Monopoly

0

Total Revenue Curve Inelastic

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Marginal Revenue and Elasticity

Monopoly

• The monopolist’s marginal revenue function is 1+ = , where is the elasticity of demand for the monopolist’s product and is the price charged. – For > 0 • • •

> 0 when < −1. = 0 when = −1. < 0 when −1 < < 0.

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Marginal Revenue and Linear Demand

Monopoly

• Given an linear inverse demand function = + , where > 0 < 0, the associated marginal revenue is = +2

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Marginal Revenue In Action

Monopoly

• Suppose the inverse demand function for a monopolist’s product is given by = 10 − 2 . What is the maximum price per unit a monopolist can charge to be able to sell 3 units? What is marginal revenue when = 3? • Answer:

– The maximum price the monopolist can charge for 3 units is: = 10 − 2 3 = $4. – The marginal revenue at 3 units for this inverse linear demand is: = 10 − 2 2 3 = −$2. 8-27

Output Rule

Monopoly

• A profit-maximizing monopolist should produce the output, , such that marginal revenue equals marginal cost: =

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Costs, Revenues, and Profit In Action

Monopoly

Cost function

$

= × Revenue function

Slope of =

Maximum profit

Slope of =

0

Output 8-29

Profit Maximization In Action Price

(



)

=

×

MC

Monopoly

ATC

Profits

Demand MR

Quantity

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Pricing Rule

Monopoly

• Given the level of output, , that maximizes profits, the monopoly price is the price on the demand curve corresponding to the units produced: =

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Monopoly In Action

Monopoly

• Suppose the inverse demand function for a monopolist’s product is given by = 100 − 2 and the cost function is = 10 + 2 . Determine the profit-maximizing price, quantity and maximum profits. • Answer: – Profit-maximizing output is found by solving: 100 − 4 =2⟹ = 24.5. – The profit-maximizing price is: = 100 − 2 24.5 = $51. – Maximum profits are: = $51 × 24.5 − (10 + 2 × 24.5 = $1,190.50.

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Absence of a Supply Curve

Monopoly

• Recall, firms operating in perfectly competitive markets determine how much output to produce based on price ( = ). – Thus, a supply curve exists in perfectly competitive markets.

• A monopolist’s market power implies = .

>

– Thus, there is no supply curve for a monopolist, or in markets served by firms with market power. 8-33

Multiplant Decisions

Monopoly

• Often a monopolist produces output in different locations. – Implications: manager has to determine how much output to produce at each plant.

• Consider a monopolist producing output at two plants:

– The cost of producing units at plant 1 is , and the cost of producing at plant 2 is . – When the monopolist produces a homogeneous product, the per-unit price consumers are willing to pay for the total output produced at the two plants is , where = + . 8-34

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Multiplant Output Rule

Monopoly

• Let be the marginal revenue of producing a total of = + units of output. • Suppose the marginal cost of producing units of output in plant 1 is and that of producing units in plant 2 is . • The profit-maximizing rule for the two-plant monopolist is to allocate output among the two plants such that: = = 8-35

Implications of Entry Barriers

Monopoly

• A monopolist may earn positive economic profits, which in the presence of barriers to entry prevents other firms from entering the market to reap a portion of those profits.

– Implication: monopoly profits will continue over time provided the monopoly maintains its market power.

• Monopoly power, however, does not guarantee positive profits.

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Zero-Profit Monopolist In Action

Monopoly

Price

=

(

MC

ATC

)

Demand MR

Quantity

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Deadweight Loss of Monopoly

Monopoly

• The consumer and producer surplus that is lost due to the monopolist charging a price in excess of marginal cost.

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Deadweight Loss of Monopolist In Action

Monopoly

Price MC Deadweight loss

MR

Demand Quantity

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Monopolistic Competition: Key Conditions

Monopolistic Competition

• An industry is monopolistically competitive if:

– There are many buyers and sellers. – Each firm in the industry produces a differentiated product. – There is free entry into and exit from the industry.

• A key difference between monopolistically competitive and perfectly competitive markets is that each firm produces a slightly differentiated product. – Implication: products are close, but not perfect, substitutes; therefore, firm’s demand curve is downward sloping under monopolistic competition.

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Profit-Maximizing Monopolistically Competitive Firm In Action

Monopolistic Competition

Price



(

∗)







=

×



MC

ATC

Profits

Demand ∗

MR

Quantity

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Profit-Maximization Rule

Monopolistic Competition

• To maximize profits, a monopolistically competitive firm produces where its marginal revenue equals marginal cost. • The profit-maximizing price is the maximum price per unit that consumers are willing to pay for the profit-maximizing level of output. • The profit-maximizing output, ∗ , is such that ∗ ∗ = and the profit-maximizing ∗ ∗ price is = . 8-42

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Long-Run Equilibrium

Monopolistic Competition

• If firms in monopolistically competitive markets earn short-run

– profits, additional firms will enter in the long run to capture some of those profits. – losses, some firms will exit the industry in the long run.

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Entry in Monopolistically Competitive Market In Action

Monopolistic Competition

Price

MC

ATC Due to entry of new firms selling other brands



Demand1 ∗

MR1

MR0

Demand0

Quantity of Brand X

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Long-Run Monopolistically Competitive Equilibrium In Action

Monopolistic Competition

Price

Long-run monopolistically competitive equilibrium

MC

ATC



Demand1 ∗

MR1

Quantity of Brand X

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Long-Run and Monopolistic Competition

Monopolistic Competition

• In the long run, monopolistically competitive firms produce a level of output such that: – –

> =

>

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Implications of Product Differentiation

Monopolistic Competition

• The differentiated nature of products in monopolistically competitive markets implies that firms in these industries must continually convince consumers that their products are better than their competitors. • Two strategies monopolistically competitive firms use to persuade consumers: – Comparative advertising – Niche marketing

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Optimal Advertising Decisions

Optimal Advertising Decisions

• How much should a firm spend on advertising to maximize profits? – Depends, in part, on the nature of the industry. – The optimal amount of advertising balances the marginal benefits and marginal costs.

• Profit-maximizing advertising-to-sales ratio is: =



,

,

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Conclusion

• Firms operating in a perfectly competitive market take the market price as given.

– Produce output where = . – Firms may earn profits or losses in the short run. – … but, in the long run, entry or exit forces economic profits to zero.

• A monopoly firm, in contrast, can earn persistent profits provided that the source of monopoly power is not eliminated. • A monopolistically competitive firm can earn profits in the short run, but entry by competing brands will erode these profits in the long run.

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