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Basic Question 14 of 22

If a regulatory commission sets a monopolist's price at the level where the demand curve intersects the firm's average total cost curve, the firm would ______

A. earn economic profit.
B. incur losses and eventually go out of business.
C. earn only a normal profit.

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sharky7 Is this because since P=ATC , economic profit = 0, and normal profit is that profit that makes the economic profit 0?
nabada0419 sharky7, you are right. The firm will earn zero economic profit = normal profit.
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Learning Outcome Statements

describe characteristics of perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and pure monopoly

CFA® 2024 Level I Curriculum, Volume 1, Module 1.