Why monopoly is a market failure diagrams Flashcards
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Allocative efficiency diagram
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No market failure
allocative efficiency occurs at MC=AR (where the CoP for one more output is the price consumers are willing to pay)
However given the chance firms wont want allocative efficiency they will want profit maximisation
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Profit maximisation diagram
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If the monopoly decides to profit maximise the price consumers pay increases to RpM, reducing the consumer surplus.
There is also large increases in the producer surplus.
However this also causes a welfare loss, the reduction in consumer and producer surplus, which is why monopolies usually cause a market failure.