DP Economics Questionbank

On Figure 2, draw and label appropriate additional curves to show how a perfectly competitive market will move from short-run equilibrium to long-run equilibrium.

Using your answer to part (c)(ii), explain how the market adjustment takes place.

Using a perfect competition diagram, explain whether farmers in the Philippines are making an economic profit or loss (Table 1).

(ii) Using Figure 2, identify the quantity of cans per month Firm B must produce in order to maximize profits.

(iii) Calculate the economic profit when Firm B is producing at the output level identified in part (ii).