Suppose a firm has market power and faces a downward sloping demand curve for its product, and its marginal cost curve is upward sloping. If the firm reduces its price, then consumer surplus increases, producer surplus may increase or decrease. Explain this statement with a graph.  this is a microeconomy question please consider.

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