Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 7.4

7.4 — practice question

Every firm in an economy produces at an output level where price and marginal private cost are equal. Why may this still be inadequate to guarantee that allocative efficiency is attained?

  • Aa small number of buyers and sellers
  • Bdifferences in consumers’ preferences
  • Cproduct differentiation
  • Dthe presence of externalities

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