Price Discrimination in Microeconomics
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What is the key factor that distinguishes price discrimination from product differentiation?

  • Market power and sole pricing power
  • Variation in customers' willingness to pay
  • Difference in production cost for the differently priced products (correct)
  • Elasticity of demand variation
  • In what type of market structure is market power necessary for price discrimination to succeed?

  • Monopoly (correct)
  • Monopolistic competition
  • Perfect competition
  • Oligopoly
  • How do prices under price discrimination compare to the equilibrium price in a perfectly competitive market?

  • Higher (correct)
  • Lower
  • Unpredictable
  • Equal
  • What is one of the benefits of price discrimination for firms?

    <p>Maximizing profits and capturing additional consumer surplus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which industries is price discrimination prevalent?

    <p>Education, telecommunications, and healthcare</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the technical definition of a recession in the United States?

    <p>A significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How are business cycle fluctuations usually characterized?

    <p>By general upswings and downturns in macroeconomic variables</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the range of periodicity for individual episodes of expansion/recession within business cycles?

    <p>Around 2 to 10 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is often used in statistics to describe the process of business cycle fluctuations?

    <p>&quot;Stochastic cycle&quot;</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is typically used to measure business cycles?

    <p>&quot;Real Gross Domestic Production&quot;</p> Signup and view all the answers

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