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Economic Efficiency and Resource Allocation

Economic Efficiency and Resource AllocationThe result of monopolistic competition is efficient, but there are 2 problems:When a firm attains some degree of market power, its profit-making approach is to produce lesser output while charging a price that exceeds the marginal cost.A monopolistically competitive firm will not realize all the economies of scale available.