Multiple Choice
With rent seeking by a monopoly
A) the monopolist's average total costs will increase so that its average total cost curve is tangent to the demand curve at the profit-maximizing price.
B) a monopoly uses all of what would be its economic profit to prevent other firms from taking its economic rent.
C) the full deadweight loss of monopoly is larger than in the absence of rent seeking.
D) All of the above answers are correct.
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