Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate and make effective use of resources. Because we live in a world where resources are scarce economic systems make use of market structures such as the perfectly competitive market model as a benchmarking tool in order to better understand consumer behaviour and recognise areas of their market structures that require improvement and how they could possibly achieve this in the most efficient and effective way. The theory of perfect competition is
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MARKET STRUCTURES – OLIGOPOLY (I) ASSUMPTIONS 1. A few dominant firms How to measure whether an industry exhibits oligopoly : 2. Differentiated products 3. Relatively high barriers to entry 4. Strategic behavior • • is used to study strategic behavior 5. Many models to describe oligopoly • Kinked demand curve • Duopoly : Cournot‚ Stakleberg‚ Bertrand • Price leadership (II) STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR (1) Collusive agreements and Cartels Collusive agreements
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Imagine a firm with the same cost structure but in each of the four market structures: Competitive‚ Monopolistically Competitive‚ Oligopoly‚ and a Monopoly. Explain the long run outcome in each market structure. A purely competitive market insures that no buyer or seller has any market power or ability to influence the price. The sellers in a purely competitive market are price takers. The market set the price and each seller react to that price by altering the variable input and output in the short
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and sellers regarding prices‚ product characteristics‚ and production techniques (Duffy‚ 1993.) Economists distinguish among four different market structures‚ which they refer to as perfect competition‚ monopoly‚ monopolistic competition‚ and oligopoly. This paper will discuss the following market structures characteristics‚ how is the price determined‚ how is the output determined‚ if there are any barriers and what role does each market structure play in the economy. Based on the differing outcomes
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Why perfect competition?? Executive Summary This report provides information related to the four main market structures and why perfect competition is the most efficient. Features of four market structures and comparison of monopoly and perfect competition. Perfect completion is most efficient Subject matter Details Conclusions Introduction Market structure is best defined as the organizational and other characteristics of
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profit in the long run‚ because if profit was being made‚ more firms would enter the market and market prices would decline until all firms made zero profit. These elements are perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚ oligopoly‚ and monopoly. Based on the differing outcomes of different market
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Fast food companies such as McDonald’s‚ Taco Bell‚ and KFC are all an example of monopolistic competition. Monopolistic competition is characterized by (1) a relatively large number of sellers‚ (2) differentiated products (promoted by advertising)‚ and (3) easy entry and exit from industry (McConnell p.445). Fast food companies fit into monopolistic competition because consumers perceive that there are non-price differences among the competitors’ products‚ there are many producers and customers
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illustrate how consumers are spending‚ their responses and behavior to a product or service‚ and the price of a product or service. In the following paragraphs there are four types of market structures that will be looked at; the monopoly structure‚ the oligopoly structure‚ the monopolistic competition structure‚ and the pure
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1. Characteristics of the four market structures. [monopoly‚ oligopoly‚ monopolistic competition‚ & perfect competition] 2. Know the four types of monopolies. [Government‚ Natural‚ Technology‚ and Geographic] Market Structure Vocabulary I. Perfect Competition – has a very large number of sellers (hundreds or thousands) of the same product (any agriculture or fishery product). They are all
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buyers and seller meet and consign to trade. Market structure is firms or companies that produced identical product which are uniform. There are different types of market structures which includes perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚ oligopoly and monopoly each of these structure function a certain way. Some of the key factors of market structure are size of firms‚ entry condition‚ role of government‚ price change and differentiation. Some of these elements can be a determinant factor
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