devry econ545 week 3 discussions latest 2015 spring

Below is a recommended topic for this discussion. If your instructor chooses a different “Making the Connection” from this weeks’ readings or another alternate discussion topic, his or her chosen topic and any required work in MyEconLab or elsewhere will be in the instructors’ first posting.

• Read the Making the Connection short case titled With Price Collusion, More is Not Merrier in Chapter 14 of our textbook, and also be sure to watch the video right under the Making the Connection title (maybe a few times). Then post your first posting this week beginning to discuss what you’ve read and watched in the video.
• Then work on Problems and Applications 2.15, at the end of chapter 14, answering and discussing the questions in that exercise.

Below is a recommended topic for this discussion. If your instructor chooses a “Making the Connection” from this weeks’ readings or another alternate discussion topic, his or her chosen topic and any required work in MyEconLab or elsewhere will be in the instructors’ first posting.

• Review and chose a firm of your choice or one provided by your instructor. Is this firm a monopoly? In what ways could it be considered a monopoly? What markets are involved? What antitrust legislation would apply? Is antitrust legislation fair to your chosen firm? Why or why not?