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vinney12

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Data in the following table refer to the purchase of a resource by a pure monopsonist. Let the resource be labor time L, measured in hundreds of hours per day.
 
  Units of Labor Marginal Average Marginal Revenue
   Input Expenditure Expenditure Product
   L ME AE MRP
   1 10 10 16
   2 12 11 15
   3 14 12 14
   4 16 13 13
   5 18 14 12
   6 20 15 11
   7 22 16 10
   8 24 17 9
 
  a. Determine the profit maximizing purchase rate of labor for the monopsonist.
  b. If this market were not monopsonistic but competitive, what would be the purchase rate of labor time?
  c. Determine the equilibrium wage rate in both the monopsonistic and competitive markets?

Question 2

A lawsuit seeking compensation for damage from pollution
 
  A) will ruin any chances the Coase theorem has of working to avoid the situation in the first place.
  B) is a substitute for bargaining, but an inefficient one.
  C) is a substitute for bargaining, and it can lead to the efficient solution.
  D) is preferable to switching the property rights between the parties.
  E) is how the Coase theorem was meant to work in the first place.



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GCabra

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Answer to Question 1

a. Equate ME to MRP. This occurs at L = 3.
b. Equate AE to MRP. This occurs at L = 4.
c. The wage rate for the monopsonist would be the value of AE at L = 3. Thus, wage = 12. The wage rate in the competitive market would be the value of MRP at the intersection with AE. Thus, wage = 13.

Answer to Question 2

C




vinney12

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Reply 2 on: Jul 1, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


bulacsom

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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