increase or protect their market share. Types of Competitive Markets The spectrum of competition ranges from highly competitive markets where there are many sellers‚ each of whom has little or no control over the market price - to a situation of pure monopoly where a market or an industry is dominated by one single supplier who enjoys considerable discretion in setting prices‚ unless subject to some form of direct regulation by the government. In many sectors of the economy markets are best described
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different technology and costs gy • information • demand conditions‚ etc. These differences have an impact on the choices made by firms. According to different conditions‚ we will look at the following market structures: • Perfect competition • Monopoly • Monopolistic competition • Oligopoly Managerial Economics / Carlos Almeida Andrade Carlos Almeida Andrade 2013/14 Managerial Economics: Market Structures Part 1 Perfect Competition Main conditions for a perfect competitive market:
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marketing fairly on the internet. Antitrust and monopoly laws have been implemented to stop the spread of unfair business practices‚ but with the birth of social networking‚ a new responsibility for the FCC has arisen. In order to analyze these aspects‚ one must be familiar with antitrust and monopoly law and how it has been grounded in American law since the inception of the Sherman Act. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how antitrust and monopoly law has affected businesses from a marketing/advertising
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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 different types of inefficiencies In the above diagram the firm maximises profit where MR=MC at output Qm. This output is allocative inefficient because P > MC.
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Alternative theories to profit maximization ranging from perfect competition to strict monopolies. Companies and The Market Most companies are profit oriented. Companies survive and live on profit. Even governmental institutions‚ NGO’s and NPO’s are profit oriented‚ what they do with profit is different though. Saying this means that companies seek always to be at a position where profit is maximized. As we know by now this happens when MC=MR but this is an always changing point as supply and
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a marketplace fairly competitive? We quote the generally accepted definitions of oligopolies and monopolies in part one of this article series. Basically‚ any time four (or sometimes more; and of course‚ definitely if fewer) companies have 50% or more of a market‚ this is probably an oligopoly‚ and if these four (or fewer) companies control more than 80% of the market‚ it is most likely a monopoly (even though more than one company is present). US market statistics So how do the US airlines stack
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together act as a monopoly. Collaboration When two or more oligopolies agree to fix prices or take part in anti-competitive behavior‚ they form a collusive oligopoly. They agreement can be formal or informal. A formal agreement is a cartel and is generally illegal. OPEC is a legal cartel but it’s signed between countries and not firms. In an informal agreement‚ the firms behave as a monopoly and choose the output that maximizes output. The diagram would be like the monopoly profit maximizer
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Microsoft Antitrust Case Did Microsoft violated the Antitrust Law? Microsoft Antitrust Case Introduction: Microsoft was formed in 1975 by a university drop out in his junior year called Bill Gates. Bill Gates has been successful to achieve the company’s vision‚ “we want PC on every desk in every home and office”. Microsoft which is a massive company today was only a small company in 1983. It headquarters contained only a small building next to the Burgermaster in Bellevue and another
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PERFECT COMPETITION Short Run Equilibrium of the Firm Under Perfect Competition: Definition and Explanation: By short run is meant a length of time which is not enough to change the level of fixed inputs or the number of firms in the industry but long enough to change the level of output by changing variable inputs. In short period‚ a distinction is made of two types of costs (i) fixed cost and (ii) variable cost. The fixed cost in the form of fixed factors i.e.‚ plant‚ machinery
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