Week 3 Knowledge Check Study Guide Concepts Mastery Score: 7 / 7 Questions MONOPOLY 100% 1 OLIGOPOLOY 100% 2 PROFIT MAXIMIZATION 100% 3 4 MARKET STRUCTURE 100% 5 6 7 Concept: MONOPOLY Mastery 100% Questions 1. In a monopolistically competitive market‚ A. firms produce differentiated products 1 B. there are barriers to entry C. firms produce homogeneous products D. the demand for any firm’s product is perfectly elastic Correct: The Correct Answer is: A. Concept: OLIGOPOLOY
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Discuss the effects of increased concentration in transport markets. Concentration ratio refers to the market share of the largest firms in an industry. For example‚ a 5 firm concentration ratio of 65% means that the 5 largest firms have more 65% of market sales. If the concentration ratio increased‚ then 1 or 2 firms may start to dominate the market and the firms will be able to exercise Monopoly power. (in UK legal definition of a monopoly is a firm with more than 25%) This is likely to cause many
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Corporate Strategy and Policy A Template for Structural Analysis of an Industry You can use the following template for analyzing the structure of an industry. It requires you to rate the attractiveness of an industry on a 5-point scale for several factors relating to each of the five forces in Porter’s (1980) model. (A 7-point or a 10-point scale would perhaps be even better in that it would allow finer discrimination between two businesses with different levels of attractiveness
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If the dealybob business were in a perfectly competitive market‚ I wouldn’t have to consider the barriers to entry. In perfect competition there are no barriers to entry; if there are profits to be made‚ other firms will enter the market until economic profits are reduced to the normal profit level. Because of this‚ I would receive zero economic profit if I entered a dealybob market that was in perfectly competitive market. Like a perfectly competitive industry‚ monopolistically competitive industries
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As per Wikipedia‚ "natural monopoly" is defined as "an industry is said to be a natural monopoly if one firm can produce a desired output at a lower social cost than two or more firmsthat is‚ there are economies of scale in social costs. Unlike in the ordinary understanding of a monopoly‚ a natural monopoly situation does not mean that only one firm is providing a particular kind of good or service. Rather it is the assertion about an industry‚ that multiple firms providing a good or service is
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Do Pure Monopolies Exist? ECO 100: Survey of Contemporary Economic Issues May 26‚ 2014 Do Pure Monopolies Exist? The topic of conversation in regards to monopolies and their existence is the objective of this paper. In order to come to any real conclusion on the topic‚ we must first come to understand the true meaning of the word “monopoly.” This paper will also examine if “pure monopoly” can even actually exist considering no firm is completely sheltered from rivals and all firms compete
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Driven by the potential to create profits and to survive in a highly competitive industry‚ rival firms have to continuously strive to be innovative to attract and keep customers. # Are monopolies bad? Antitrust laws good or bad? – topic # I’m arguing that monopolies are bad. Antitrust good. # Briefly describing monopoly vs competitive market Monopolies are characterized as a single firm or group of firms that are the sole suppliers of a good or service for which there are no close substitutes. Natural
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How well does the article explain game theory. After reading the Wall Street Journal’s article regarding game theory‚ one realizes that economics has many facets. Game theory is trying to anticipate what the competition will do or is contemplating. (Barnett‚ 1995). It ’s really like playing chess. But unlike chess‚ there will be a winner and loser‚ you can have win-win and lose-lose situations in business. To avoid having retaliation from the competition‚ it is best to have those firms in the
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Company Kodak and Polaroid are both extremely different firms. Polaroid has only one specialization and that is the instant photo market. Kodak on the other hand has reaches in all photo related industries. Kodak had high fixed costs due to their in-house production while Polaroid opted to be flexible and loose by subcontracting most of its production facilities. Therefore‚ Kodak had to reach a certain level of market volume in order to break even and become profitable. Polaroid‚ on the other
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The Theory of Contestable Markets • Potential competition or monopoly In recent years‚ economists have developed the theory of contestable markets. This theory argues that what is crucial in determining price and output is not whether an industry is actually a monopoly or competitive‚ but whether there is the real threat of competition. If a monopoly is protected by high barriers to entry – say that it owns all the raw materials – then it will be able to make supernormal profits with no fear
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