Across
- 5. Variables the prevent firms from entering an industry
- 6. Firm's ability to set their own prices above marginal cost
- 7. A firm's ability to establish its rival's products
- 8. The category of government regulations concerned with the workings of the economy
- 11. A new idea for combining the factors of production to make a good or service
- 12. One firm can provide a good or service at a lower cost than two or more firms; the firm has decreasing average total costs over the whole range of production
- 15. An exclusive right granted by the government to copy, publish, and sell items such as books, art, music, and film.
- 16. A competitive situation in which firms in a market have some ability to set price.
- 17. Producing below the level where average cost is at a minimum; the firm has the ability to increase production while decreasing the average total cost of production
- 18. When rivals compete with each other through means other than price, such as quality, product differentiation, service, or advertising
Down
- 1. loss When firm operates with inefficiency, the gains from trade are not maximized; the excess value above marginal cost that consumers place on the production of the units that are not produced by a price searcher, but that consumers value more than the marginal cost of production. (Also called welfare loss)
- 2. A market in which the threat of entry by a rival firm keeps a monopolist from earning monopoly profits
- 3. Regulatory method for monopolies that sets price equal to average total cost
- 4. A market structure characterized by many producers of a product that can be slightly differentiated, allowing a small amount of price-setting ability
- 9. Legislation and other government activities designed to restrict the anticompetitive practices of firms with market power
- 10. Regulatory method for monopolies that sets price equal to average total cost
- 13. The market structure in which there is one seller of a good that has no close substitutes
- 14. Reselling a good or service to make a profit; the reseller is able to do this because firm sells the same product to different people at different prices
