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Consider an Incumbent That Successfully Links the Pre-Entry Price and Post-Entry

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Consider an incumbent that successfully links the pre-entry price and post-entry profit to prevent entry.The incumbent's monopoly profit is $10 million.If a rival successfully enters the market,the incumbent's profits will fall to $4 million.If the incumbent lowers output to 25,000 units,its rival will stay out of the market,resulting in an infinite stream of profits of $8 million annually.Due to a recent loan default,the current interest rate is whopping 210 percent.Is limit pricing profitable for the incumbent?


A) Yes, since $19.05 million is greater than $2 million.
B) No, since $1.905 million is less than $2 million.
C) No since $4 million is less than $4.2 million.
D) Linking the pre-entry price to the post-entry profit is sufficient to guarantee the profitability of limit pricing.

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