Monopolistic competition

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What is monopolistic competition?
Monopolistic competition is a market structure with many firms producing a differentiated product where there are few barriers to entry and exit
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In monopolistic competition, the demand curve is ?
Relatively elastic
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Firms in monopolistic competition are only going to make what profit in the long run?
Normal profit
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Monopolistically competitive firms have _________ - this is because their products are differentiated.
Some price making power
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In both short run and long run - in terms of allocative efficiency...
P>MC
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In monopolistic competition, is being productive efficiency achieved?
Productive efficiency is not being achieved, since in the short run and long run, the firm is operating on the downward-sloping part of the AC curve
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Given the product differentiation, it should be clear that firms in monopolistic competition compete through ?
Non-price competition
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In monopolistic competition, the demand curve is ?

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Relatively elastic

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Firms in monopolistic competition are only going to make what profit in the long run?

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Monopolistically competitive firms have _________ - this is because their products are differentiated.

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In both short run and long run - in terms of allocative efficiency...

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