DIRECTIONS: Please read the following problem set carefully (10 points)
• CONSIDER:
o A single firm in a market who sells a product for which there is no close substitute.
o HIGH barriers to enter the market exist
o INVERSE-MARKET DEMAND for the good:
o FIRM'S COST FUNCTION for the good:
1) The Socially Optimal Output Quantity & Price. (HINT: What a perfectly competitive firm's equilibrium would be)
2) The Monopoly's Optimal Output Quantity & Price.
3) Compute the resulting dead weight loss (DWL) inefficiency from the monopolistic optimal outcome.