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bobbysung

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A perfect price discriminator receives a price equal to marginal revenue for each unit.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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A perfect-price-discriminating monopoly maximizes social welfare as measured by the sum of producer surplus plus consumer surplus.
 
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Answer to Question 1

True. A perfect price discriminator sets the price of each unit sold equal to the reservation price of the good. The price equals the maximum price a consumer will pay for a given unit. Thus, the price of each unit will equal the marginal revenue of each unit.

Answer to Question 2

True. Unlike the competitive market, however, social welfare is all producer surplus. There is no consumer surplus. Thus, while a perfect-price-discriminating monopoly is efficient, many are troubled by it based upon distributional issues.





 

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