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A-LevelEconomicsMarket Structures / OligopolyOct/Nov 2017Paper 3 Q101 Mark

Increased advertising by a firm in an imperfectly competitive industry leads to an increase in demand for the industry's product but a fall in the firm's profits. What could help to explain this? A Production is subject to diseconomies of scale. B Rival firms respond by increasing their advertising outlays. C The demand for the industry's product is price-inelastic. D The increase in demand for the firm's output is entirely at the expense of other firms.

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Economics (9708) Oct/Nov 2017 examination, Paper 3 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Market Structures / Oligopoly and is worth 1 mark.

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