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MONOPOLY
Made by:-Anam Mehmood
-Shivani Babbar
-Sagar Khandelwal
-Abrar Kadvekar
-Neethi Menon
-Sahil Khusro
-Rohit Seth
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DEFINITION
A monopoly is a situation in whichsingle company owns all of the market
for a given type of product or service.
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MONOPOLY ARISES WHEN
Barriers to Entry : that allows the singlecompany to operate without competition.
In such an industry structure, the producer will
often produce a volume that is less than theamount which would maximize social welfare.
Three types of Barriers to Entry
Economic
Legal
Deliberate
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1. ECONOMIC BARRIERS
Economies ofScale :
Itrefers economic efficiency thatresults from
carrying outa process (suchas production orsales) on a larger and larger scale.
Declining cost coupled with large start upcosts give monopolies an advantage over
would be competitors.
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They are in position to cut prices below a
new entrant's operating costs and drive
them out of the industry.
The size of the industry relative to the
minimum efficient scale may limit the
number of firms that can effectively
compete within the industry.
Contd.
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Technological Superiority
May be better able to acquire, integrate and
use the best possible technology in
producing its goods while entrants do not
have the size or fiscal muscle to use the best
available technology.
In nut shell one large firm can sometimes
produce goods cheaper than several small
firms.
Contd.
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Non Availability ofSubstitute
Makes the demand for the good relatively
inelastic enabling the monopolies to extracts
positive profits.
Capital Requirements:
Large fixed cost limits the number of firms in
the industry.
Difficult for small firms to enter an industry
and expand.
Contd.
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2. LEGAL BARRIERS
Legal rights can provide opportunity to
monopolise the market.
For eg :Intellectual property rights, including
patents and copyrights, give a monopolist
exclusive control over the production and
selling of certain goods.
Contd.
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3. DELIBERATEACTIONS
A firm wanting to monopolise a market may
engage in various types of deliberate action to
exclude competitors or eliminate competition.
Such actions include collusion, lobbying
governmental authorities, and force.
Contd.
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BENEFITS OF MONOPOLY
Reduction in price of goods due to economies ofscale.
No risk of over production
There is enough capital for research
Company promotes R&D for their product tomaintain its competitive advantage
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DISADVANTAGES OF MONOPOLY
Exploitation of consumers
Restriction of consumers choice
Absence of competition leads to inefficiency
Increase in price of product
Exploitation of labor ie when price is greater thanmarginal cost
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DEMANDCURVEFOR MONOPOLY
The monopolistic
confronts a downwardsloping demand curve.
The Industry demand
curve is same as firmsdemand curve.
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MARGINAL REVENUECURVEFOR A MONOPOLIST
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AS OBSERVEDFROM THEFIGURE
At every level of output except 1 unit, a monopolists marginal
revenue (MR) is below price
This is so because
1. We assume that the monopolist must sell all its productat a single price (no price discrimination).
2. To raise output and sell it, the firm must lower the price it
charges. Selling the additional output will raise revenue,but this increase is offset somewhat by the lower price
charged for all units sold. Therefore, the increase in
revenue from increasing output by 1 (the marginal
revenue) is less than the price.
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MONOPOLY: EQUILIBRIUMPm = the price
Qm = quantity
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MONOPOLY: EQUILIBRIUM
Firm = Market
MR=MC
MC curve cuts MR curve from below.
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PROFIT MAXIMIZATION
To maximize profit ,monopolist should chooseto produce that output
level where MarginalRevenue equals MarginalCost.
Since MR = MC at the profitmaximizing output and P>MR for a monopolist, themonopolist will set a pricegreater than marginal cost
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MONOPOLY PROFIT
A maximizing monopolist
will raise the output as
long as MR exceed MC.
Above Q* units of output,
MC is greater than MR,
thus increasing the output
beyond Q* will reduce the
profits.
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PRICE AND OUTPUTCHOICESFOR A MONOPOLIST
SUFFERING LOSSESIN THESHORT-RUN
It is possible for aprofit-maximizingmonopolist to suffershort-run losses.
If the firm cannotgenerate enoughrevenue to covertotal costs, it will go
out of business in thelong-run.
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NORMAL PROFIT IN SHORT- RUN
PERIOD
IN SHORT
RUN
EQUILLIBRUM1)(MC=MR),
2)(AR=AC),
So they will
earn only
normal profit.
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LONG- RUN EQUILIBRIUM:
The firm will
earn super-
normal profitsin long run.
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SUPPLY CURVE OF MONOPOLY
A monopoly firm has no supply curve that is
independent of the demand curve for its product.
A monopolist sets both price and quantity, and the
amount of output that it supplies depends on both
its marginal cost curve and the demand curve that
it faces.
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PERFECT
COMPETITION ANDMONOPOLY
COMPARED
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MONOPOLY VS. COMPETITIVE MARKETS
Market Power
Perfectly Competitive Firms :
Zero market power, in terms of setting prices.Firm is a Price Taker.
Monopoly :Considerable market power.
Firm is a Price Maker.
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Price
Perfectly Competitive Firms:
Market Price is equal to Marginal Cost
Monopoly:
Market Price is greater than MarginalCost.
Contd.
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Product DifferentiationPerfectly Competitive Firms:
Homogeneous product
Close Substitute available.
Monopoly:
High product differentiation
No Close substitute available.
Contd.
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Contd.
Elasticity ofDemand
Perfectly Competitive Firms:
Demand curve is perfectly Elastic.
Monopoly:
Demand Curve is relatively inelastic.
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Number of BuyersPerfectly Competitive Firms:
Populated by an infinite number of buyers
and sellers.
Monopoly
It involves a single seller.
Contd.
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In a perfectly competitive industry in the long run, price will be equal to
long-run average cost. The market supply curve is the sum of all the short-
run marginal cost curves of the firms in the industry. Here we assume that
firms are using a technology that exhibits constant returns to scale: LRAC
is flat. Big firms enjoy no cost advantage.
A Perfectly Competitive Industry in Long-Run
Equilibrium
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Perfect Competition and Monopoly Compared
Comparison of Monopoly and Perfectly Competitive Outcomes for a Firm with Constant Returnsto ScaleIn the newly organized monopoly, the marginal cost curve is the same as the supply curve
that represented the behavior of all the independent firms when the industry was organized
competitively. Quantity produced by the monopoly will be less than the perfectly competitive
level of output, and the monopoly price will be higher than the price under perfect
competition. Under monopoly, P= Pm = $4 and Q = Qm = 2,500. Under perfect competition, P= P = $3 and Q = Q = 4,000.
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PRICEDISCRIMINATION
This occurs when a firm charges a different price to
different groups of consumers for an identical good or
service, for reasons not associated with the costs of
production.
It is important to stress that charging different prices
for similar goods is not price discrimination. For
example, price discrimination does not does not occurwhen a rail company charges a higher price for a first
class seat. This is because the price premium over a
second-class seat can be explained by differences in
the cost of providing the service.
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A monopoly engages in price discrimination if it
is able to sell otherwise identical units of output
at different prices.
Whether a price discrimination strategy is
feasible depends on the inability of buyers to
practice arbitrage
Contd.
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PERFECT PRICEDISCRIMINATION
If this monopolist wishes to practice perfect price
discrimination, he will want to produce the quantity for
which the marginal buyer pays a price exactly equal to
the marginal cost.
Contd.
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MARKETSEPARATION
The profit maximizing price will be higher inmarkets where demand is inelastic.