Sherry wants to rent an apartment. although rents are below what she is willing to pay, she cannot find an apartment. then after a month of searching, she finds an apartment but she has to pay an additional $1,000 to have the locks changed. sherry has just experienced the effects of a) a rent floor with a black market b) inelastic demand c) a market working efficiently d) a rent ceiling 12. a price floor a) always results in a surplus. b) always results in a shortage. c) results in a surplus if the floor price is higher than the equilibrium price. d) results in a shortage if the floor price is higher than the equilibrium price.

1. consider a two-firm industry. firm 1 (the incumbent) chooses a level of output qı. firm 2 (the potential entrant) observes qı and then chooses its level of output q2. the demand for the product is p 100 q, where q is the total output sold by the two firms which equals qi +q2. assume that the marginal cost of each firm is zero. a) find the subgame perfect equilibrium levels of qi and q2 keeping in mind that firm 1 chooses qi first and firm 2 observes qi and chooses its q2. find the profits of the two firms-n1 and t2- in the subgame perfect equilibrium. how do these numbers differ from the cournot equilibrium? b) for what level of qi would firm 2 be deterred from entering? would a rational firm 1 have an incentive to choose this level of qi? which entry condition does this market have: blockaded, deterred, or accommodated? now suppose that firm 2 has to incur a fixed cost of entry, f> 0. c) for what values of f will entry be blockaded? d) find out the entry deterring level of q, denoted by q1', a expression for firm l's profit, when entry is deterred, as a function of f. for what values of f would firm 1 use an entry deterring strategy?