Question

A 2017 paper by Jan De Loecker (“LEW-ker”) and Jan Eeckhout (“AY-kowt”) connected the increase in this property to decreasing labor force participation and labor flow. Next closest substitutes are added to a hypothetical product group until a firm has this property in the SSNIP test. “Incentive schemes” driven by this property were analyzed by Jean Tirole, who won the 2014 Nobel in Economics for his research on regulation and this property. (-5[1])The negative reciprocal of the price elasticity of demand, which is known as the (*) Lerner index, quantifies this property. Firms with this property can successfully engage in predatory pricing. (10[1])Firms (-5[1])that have low amounts of this property are known as “price-takers,” while firms high in this (10[1])property, such as monopolies, are “price-setters.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this measure of a firm’s ability to cut back on total output and raise prices in a market. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: market power [or pricing power; accept monopoly power; accept high-power or low-power incentive schemes; prompt on answers of being a monopoly or acting like a monopoly; prompt on market concentration]
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= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Neil GurramA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsStanford+69-5
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Berkeley9810
Afham RaoofDefying SuavityCien Años de Quizboledad99-5
Ali IzzatdustSimple VibesCambridge11510
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common Loonnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku12110
Benjamin WatsonLimp FrancekitGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz14410
Joseph KrolCien Años de QuizboledadDefying Suavity14410
Tim MorrisonStanford+A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs1440

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y367%0%33%109.50
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N367%0%33%111.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N367%0%33%101.50
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024N580%0%40%117.50
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024N683%0%50%131.80
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024N3100%0%67%134.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%33%134.33