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The market for cell phones is one where the individual firms have monopoly power and a positive amount of economic profit

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The market for cell phones is one where the individual firms have

monopoly power and a positive amount of economic profit. Based only on this information, which of the following statements can we infer is TRUE and why?


a)The firms in this market are charging a price below the marginal cost of production.


b)We would expect the firms' output level to indicate diseconomies of scale.


c)If these firms were switch to practicing price discrimination by charging different customers different prices in a profit maximizing manner, instead of setting a single price for their product, then we would expect the total social net benefits in this market to increase.