Market Structure and the Role of Government 1. Explain the unique characteristics of the four primary market structures. The four primary market structure are perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚ oligopoly‚ and monopoly (Quickonomics‚ 2017.). Each of these four characteristic of the market structure has a great influence on the decision-making and the profits (Quickonomics‚ 2017.). In perfection‚ this is a situation by which a large number of small firms compete against each other. Similarly
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Perfect competition A perfectly competitive market is a hypothetical market where competition is at its greatest possible level. Neo-classical economists argued that perfect competition would produce the best possible outcomes for consumers‚ and society. Ex:- Wheat‚ rice Key characteristics Perfectly competitive markets exhibit the following characteristics: 1. There is perfect knowledge‚ with no information failure or time lags. Knowledge is freely available to all participants‚ which means
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e Question 1 Explain what is mean by the term ‘market failure’. In your answer you must refer to the role of government in relation to each of the following. * Public goods * Merit goods * Externalities * Imperfect competition Market failure is a concept within economic theory describing when the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient. Government intervention occurs when markets are not working optimally i.e. there is a Pareto sub-optimal allocation
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Chapter 4. Ethics in the Market Place Summary of the Chapter : The chapter actually summarizes the economics in a market place. Discusses the intricacies of a Perfect Competition‚ Monopoly Competition and Oligopolistic competition. The details about equilibrium in such markets have been discussed. Economic details of the nature of behavior of Demand‚ Supply‚ cost have been covered in a view to understand the situation under which decisions are being taken in a company. The nature of such framework
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Formula: CR4= Σ4i=1 si Calculation: (11‚834‚883 + 3‚845‚900 + 3‚696‚800 + 3‚650‚647) / 44‚582‚621 = 0.5165292996 = 0.516 (3dp) =51% Analysis: As the four firm concentration ratio is >50% this insinuates that this market structure is that of an oligopoly. Calculating the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) Definition: The HHI is a concentration measure based on the sum of the squared market shares of all the firms in the industry. Formula: Calculation: 0.1085 (4dp) Analysis:
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PROSIDING PERKEM VI‚ JILID 1 (2011) 546 – 560 ISSN: 2231-962X Review of Malaysian Retail Banking Market: An Industrial Organizational Perspective Nafisah Mohammed (nafisah@ukm.my) Pusat Pengajian Ekonomi Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Suhaila Abdul Jalil ( suhaila@upm.edu.my) Jabatan Ekonomi Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan Universiti Putra Malaysia ABSTRACT The attempt of this paper is to analyze the Malaysian retail banking market within structure-conductperformance
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MARKET STRUCTURES What is a Market structure? In economics Market structure is the way the market is organized ‚ based largely on the number of firms in the industry‚ number of buyers and levels of competition ‚ for example Monopoly‚ oligopoly ‚ Perfect Competition. Monopolistic competition is the market structure is the market structure I am going to base this assignment on. Monopolistic Competition Monopolistic Competition is a type of imperfect competition such that producers
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one company with little competition. At the other end of the spectrum you have perfect competition‚ where the market is made up of about 100 small companies who would own about 1% of the market each. Towards the middle of the spectrum you have the oligopoly structure where the market is of about 4-10 companies who each control a big chunk each. Perfect competition describes how a set of companies aren’t big enough to control a big chunk of the economic market. There are 4 market characteristics of
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reduce their price? Oligopolists sometimes engage in price competition when other attempts to gain market share fail. The result is lower prices‚ increased output‚ and smaller profits. Since price competition is typically self-defeating in an oligopoly‚ rival firms usually attempt to differentiate their product to gain market share. 3. Dominos and Pizza Hut hold 66 percent of the delivered-pizza market. Should antitrust action be taken? Dominos-Pizza Hut merger resulted in a HHI value greater
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Calculate the 3 firm concentration ratio of this market. 3 firm concentration ratio = __________________________________________________________ This means: A highly concentrated market is a market which is dominated by a small number of firms (oligopoly) We say a market becomes more highly concentrated as fewer firms dominate a larger share of the market The Impact of Increased Concentration You need to be familiar with impact of increased market concentration on a market‚ and that this can be
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