In Madison, the local beer industry is operating in a perfec…
In Madison, the local beer industry is operating in a perfectly competitive market where there are eight identical firms that produce beer. Suppose that a representative firm has the following cost curves where TC is the total coast in dollars and that q is units of beer produced by a given firm. The Total Cost is: TC = 4 +2q +6q2 MC = 2 + 12q The market demand curve for the local Madison beer market is given by the following equation: P = 18 – 0.5Q Where P is the market price and Q is the market quantity of beer. You were hired by one of the beer producing firms to conduct some market analysis. a. What is the market supply curve? Answer: b. Given the market supply curve you found above, you would like to calculate the short run market equilibrium quantity and price. Equilibrium market Price = Equilibrium market Quantity = c. You would also like to know what is the short run output and profit of each of the firms operating in the market? In the short run, each firm produces: beer In the short run, the profit of each firm is: d. Will a representative firm produce in the short run? Answer: e. How much economic profit will each firm earn in the long-run? Profit =