ECO 202
Module 8 - Course Objectives
Monopoly
14.1 Explain
how monopoly arises and distinguish between single-price
monopoly and price-discriminating monopoly.
14.2 Explain
how a single-price monopoly determines its output and price.
14.3 Compare
the performance of single-price monopoly with that of perfect competition.
14.4 Explain
how price discrimination increases profit.
14.5 Explain
how monopoly regulation influences output, price, economic
profit, and efficiency.
Assessment Method
A. Do the Self-Test questions in your Study Guide as if they were real
exam questions, which means do them without looking at the answers.
B. You will learn the most from right answers you had to struggle for,
and from your wrong answers and mistakes. Only after you have attempted
all the questions should you look at the answers in your Study Guide.
C. When you check your answers, be sure to understand where you went
wrong and why the right answer is correct.
Take Self-Test 14.1, and Self-Test 14.2, and Self-Test 14.3, and Self-Test
14.4, and Self-Test 14.5 in your Study
Guide before taking Exam #2.