IB Economics HL 2.11.6 Monopolistic competition Question Bank
Practise IB Economics HL 2.11.6 by applying monopolistic competition concepts to exam-style questions.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2022
- Course
- Economics HL
- Level
- HL
Practise IB Economics HL 2.11.6 by applying monopolistic competition concepts to exam-style questions.
Firm A produces cartons of coffee. Figure 1 illustrates the firm's total cost (TC) and variable cost (VC) at different output levels per month.

Figure 1
Firm B and all the other firms in the tea market begin to sell their tea in distinctive packages and many differentiate their product with organic tea or fruit flavours. Explain how the demand curve faced by Firm B will change as a result.
Level
Marks
0
The work does not meet a standard described by the descriptors below.
1
There is limited understanding.
For a response that the demand curve will now slope down.
2
There is clear understanding.
For a response that the demand curve will slope down because the firm now has the market/monopoly power (or the ability to be a price maker) OR that the demand curve will slope down because it is now a monopolistic competitor OR the firm's demand curve is no longer perfectly elastic because it now has the market power to change its price.