Consider a homogeneous-goods market with two firms. Let and be the quantities of Firms 1 and 2, and . Inverse demand is , with and ; both firms have the same marginal cost .
Suppose both firms become revenue maximisers. Then:
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Consider a homogeneous-goods market with two firms. Let x₁ and x₂ be the quantities of Firms 1 and 2, and X=x₁+x₂. Inverse demand is P=a-bX, with b>0 and 0<3c<a; both firms have the same marginal cost c. Suppose both firms become revenue maximisers. Then: (A) Both will produce more than the Cournot output (B) Both will produce less than the Cournot output (C) Both will produce the perfectly competitive output (D) Both will produce more than the perfectly competitive output
Also written as: Consider a homogeneous-goods market with two firms. Let x_1 and x_2 be the quantities of Firms 1 and 2, and X=x_1+x_2. Inverse demand is P=a-bX, with b>0 and 0<3c<a; both firms have the same marginal cost c. Suppose both firms become revenue maximisers. Then:
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