Market Structures
Profit & Loss
Cost Curves
Perfect & Imperfect Competition
Profit Maximization
100

This structure has a large number of producers and consumers, no product differentiation, and low barriers to entry.

What is Perfect Competition 
100

Firm XYZ has a total revenue of $5,000. Their total cost across all operations is $4,200. This number is XYZ's total profit. 

What is $800

100

This cost for a firm remains constant, regardless of output level.

What is The Fixed Cost

100

In the perfect competition market structure, firms are generally regarded as price ____

What is Price Takers

100

A firm's goal is generally to maximize this.

What is Profit

200

This structure has a single large firm as the sole producer and high barriers to entry.

What is a Monopoly

200
Firm DEF has an accounting profit of $50,000 and implicit costs of $20,000. This number is its economic profit. 

What is $30,000

200

This curve on a graph intersects the ATC AND AVC curves at their MINIMUM points. 

What is The Marginal Cost Curve

200

Monopolies, Oligopolies, and Monopolistic Competition market structures all fall under this umbrella of competition.

What is Imperfect Competition

200

Firm ABC is maximizing its profit by maximizing at this point, where these two values are equal. 

What is Where Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost

300

This type of structure consists of a solid number of firms, with some levels of product differentiation and competition. 

What is Monopolistic Competition

300

Profit = Total Revenue minus this.

What is Total Cost

300

This cost is always the difference between TOTAL COST and TOTAL FIXED COST.

What is The Total Variable Cost

300

Firm XYZ's demand curve slopes downward and possesses a portion of market power. Firm XYZ is in an ____ competitive firm.

What is An Imperfectly Competitive Firm

300

Firm DEF's marginal revenue is greater than its marginal cost. DEF should do this to their production.

What is Increase Production

400

This structure possesses a small number of firms with high barriers to entry.

What is an Oligopoly

400

A firm experiences economic profit when total revenue exceeds this particular cost. 

What is Total Economic Cost

400

Firm ABC's marginal cost is below its average total cost. ATC is going in this direction.

What is Falling / Down

400

In a perfect competition market structure, total revenue is equal to this.

What is The Price

400

Firm UVW's marginal cost is greater than its marginal revenue. UVW should do this to their production to maximize their profit.

What is Decrease Production

500

What are two factors that determine a firm's market power?

What are the Barriers to Entry, Number of Competitors, Product Differentiation, or Economies of Scale

500

Firm ABC's total revenue is equal to its total cost. This is the type of profit ABC is earning.

What is Normal Profit

500

Firm XYZ's total cost has risen from $500 to $750. Their output has also increased from 40 units to 50 units. This is their marginal cost. 

What is $25

500
Firms in imperfect competition markets CAN do this, whilst firms in perfect competition markets CANNOT do this.

What is Price Discrimination

500
Firm GHI is in a perfectly competitive market. They produce 100 units where Marginal Cost = Marginal Revenue = $20. Their Average Total Cost is $17. This number is their economic profit.

What is $300