An economy has achieved allocative efficiency if:
the resources are allocated in a way that maximizes profits for all businesses.
it is producing at any point along its production possibility frontier.
the price consumers are willing to pay matches the marginal cost of production.
the average cost of producing all goods and services is minimized.
136 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.5 Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly, covering 1.5.1 Market structures, 1.5.2 The objectives of firms, 1.5.3 Perfect competition, 1.5.4 Monopolistic competition (A-level only), 1.5.5 Oligopoly (A-level only), 1.5.6 Monopoly and monopoly power, 1.5.7 Price discrimination (A-level only), 1.5.8 The dynamics of competition and competitive market processes, 1.5.9 Contestable and non-contestable markets (A-level only), 1.5.10 Market structure, static efficiency, dynamic efficiency and resource allocation (A-level only), and 1.5.11 Consumer and producer surplus (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.