Question 1 What are the important characteristics of monopoly firms? Why monopoly is desirable? Question 2 What is the Excess Capacity and Mark up for the Monopolistic Competitive firms? Question 3 What is monopolist’s “Price Discrimination” strategy? How the strategy is used to maximize profit for the monopoly firms? Question 4 What are the most important strategies for the Monopolistic Competitive firms to maximize profits? Give an example Question 5 When a profit maximising firm (Monopoly) shut down the production in the short run?