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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 3: Output Page: 11 of 22

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  • A monopolistic competitive firm is motivated by profit maximization.

  • Profit maximization is the presumption that firms make decisions and undertake production to achieve the highest possible level of economic profit, which is the difference between total revenue and total opportunity cost (including a normal profit).
  • With these numbers in place, the firm's profit-maximizing task is relatively straightforward -- to pick the production quantity associated with the highest amount of profit.

  • Three ways:

    • The Total Approach

    • Profit

    • The Marginal Approach

  • In all likelihood the firm will go ahead and produce the sixth unit. However, it will not produce the eighth unit.


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KINKED-DEMAND CURVE

A demand curve with two distinct segments which have different elasticities that join to form a corner or kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (1) a relatively more elastic segment for price increases and (2) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments is based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms.

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