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Question 4

The diagram below shows a firm in a monopolistically competitive market.

Monopolistic Competition Long-Run Equilibrium

Which of the following statements is correct?

The firm is in short-run equilibrium because it is earning supernormal profits, as price P1P_1P1​ is greater than the minimum average cost P2P_2P2​.

The firm is in long-run equilibrium, producing at the profit-maximising output Q1Q_1Q1​, and exhibits excess capacity equal to Q2−Q1Q_2 - Q_1Q2​−Q1​.

The firm achieves allocative efficiency in the long run because price P1P_1P1​ is equal to average cost at output Q1Q_1Q1​.

The firm achieves productive efficiency in the long run because it produces at output Q2Q_2Q2​, where marginal cost equals average cost (MC=ACMC = ACMC=AC).

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