Differentiating Between Market Structures Mark Patterson ECO/365 Principles of Microeconomics April 21‚ 2013 Ashok Padhi Differentiating Between Market Structures There are different classifications of markets and the structure of a business determines which classification it will fall into. Markets are divided according to the composition of the business and what it provides to the specific market. Business composition is determined by the structure of market characteristics‚ and this
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Maximizing Profits in Market Structures Maximizing Profits in Market Structures Market Structures are described as a particular relationship between the buyers and the sellers of goods and services in a specific market (Mathias‚ 2000). Three different types of market structures are competitive markets‚ monopolies‚ and oligopolies. Each of these market structures has a particular set of characteristics that identify it and separate it from the others. These categories are also separated
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Four Market Structures Shavon Harrison ECON222 Kunsoo Choi What are the four market structures and their characteristics? According to McConnell and Brue (2004) describe four market structures that companies align themselves with during the course of their corporate lives.: “Pure Competition‚ Pure Monopoly‚ Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. Companies may move from market structure to market structure over the course of growth and time. This movement between structures may be the result
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consumers‚ but there is no single company that dominates that market to the point of setting the standards in terms of pricing. Markets with this type of condition normally have large numbers of sellers who are capable of meeting the needs of consumer market‚ and actively compete with one another for the business of those consumers. There are several advantages to the existence of a perfect competition situation within a given consumer market. One has to do with the options open to customers. With a
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Perfect competition Is a market structure in which small firms take part. All producers sell the same product. There are no barriers to enter the market. All customer and producers have the same information. Firms sell all they produce‚ but they cannot set a price. They are said to be ‘price takers’ Monopolistic competition Is a market structure in which firms sell similar products nut not identical. There are no barriers to enter the market. Customers and producers have part of the information
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the firm is horizontal. No new firms enter or leave the industry. The number of firms in the industry‚ therefore‚ remain the same. Under perfect competition‚ the firm takes the price of the product as determined in the market. The firm sells all its output at the prevailing market price. The firm‚ in other words‚ is a price taker. Equilibrium of a Competitive Firm: The short-run equilibrium of a firm can be easily explained with the help of marginal revenue = marginal
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Petrol companies have the market structure of an oligopoly. An oligopoly is a market structure where there are a few dominant firms whose behavior is interdependent. There are a few dominant firms relative to market size‚ and they each command a large proportion of the market share‚ thus having strong monopoly power. Examples of petrol companies include Shell‚ Caltex and Exxon Mobil. Their demand curve is downward sloping‚ meaning that they are price setters. Petrol is a homogeneous product‚ hence
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Between Market Structures Jennifer Lavallee ECO/365 May 27‚ 2013 Market structure is the physical characteristics of the market within which companies react. This means that there are different kinds of market structure based on how companies work together within a particular industry. Location and product have the most to do with determining the market structure. There are four defined market types. The first market structure is called the perfectly competitive market. The second market is called
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Monopoly 1. Types of market structure 2. The diamond market 3. Monopoly pricing 4. Why do monopolies exist? 5. The social cost of monopoly power 6. Government regulation 7. Price discrimination • We are going to cover sections 10.1-10.4‚ sections 11.1-11.2‚ and for all practical purposes skip chapter 12. • Ben Friedman will speak in class on March 23 on his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth 1 3 2 Announcements Types of Market Structure In the real world there is a mind-boggling
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Questions on Market Structure Section A – Multiple Choice Q1 Which market model has the least number of firms? (a) Monopolistic competition (b) Perfect competition (c) Monopoly (d) Oligopoly Q2 Perfect competitive firms maximize: (a) Total profits by producing where price exceeds average total cost by the greatest amount (b) Per unit profits by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost (c) Total profits by producing where price equals marginal cost (why not MC=MR?) d) Market share by producing
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