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Garrulous

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Several years ago, Alcoa was effectively the sole seller of aluminum because the firm owned nearly all of the aluminum ore reserves in the world. This market was not perfectly competitive because this situation violated the:
 
  A) price-taking assumption.
  B) homogeneous product assumption.
  C) free entry assumption.
  D) A and B are correct.
  E) A and C are correct.

Question 2

In which of these situations would the Coase theorem be MOST likely to work?
 
  A) A thousand firms use a lake, there are no other users, all their costs could be reduced somewhat by polluting, but all would have lower water intake costs if the lake were clean.
  B) A group of nine firms use a lake, there are no other users, all their costs could be reduced somewhat by polluting, but all would have lower water intake costs if the lake were clean.
  C) Worldwide deep sea fishing rights need to be negotiated among thousands of fishermen from different countries.
  D) One hundred and fifty nations need to come to an accord about CFC generation to combat ozone depletion.
  E) A group of chemical firms high upstream on the Mississippi River have emissions that affect not only communities downstream along the river, but around the Gulf of Mexico as well.



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

B



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