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"In the long-run, monopolistically competitive firms: have excess capacity. produce at the minimum of average total cost. charge prices equal to marginal cost. both B and C are true."

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The correct answer is the option D: Both B and C are true.

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To begin with, a monopolistically competitive firms is the one that produces in a market in where the other companies sell a pretty similar but different product and there are a lot of buyers so the most important way to difference themself is by the publicity or the identification of the brand in the mind of the consumers. Moreover, in this type of market in the long-run equilibrium the price if equal to the marginal cost and also to the minimun of the average total cost so therefore that it is said that there are zero economic profit

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