Perfect competition
Perfect competition: a market form with a very large number of buyers and sellers, homogeneous product and free entry and exit so an individual firm is a price taker
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Open interactive chapter quizzesPerfect competition: a market form with a very large number of buyers and sellers, homogeneous product and free entry and exit so an individual firm is a price taker
Homogeneous product: products of different firms are identical from the buyer’s point of view
Price taker: a firm that accepts the market price because its individual output is too small to influence that price
Free entry and exit: firms can enter or leave the market without major artificial barriers in the long run
Perfect knowledge: buyers and sellers are assumed to have complete relevant information about market conditions
Monopoly: a market form with a single seller and no close substitute for the product
Monopolistic competition: a market form with many sellers offering differentiated but close-substitute products
Product differentiation: real or perceived differences that make one firm’s product distinct from competing products
Oligopoly: a market form dominated by a few large firms whose decisions are interdependent
Interdependence in oligopoly: each firm must consider likely reactions of rival firms when making strategic decisions
Perfect competition. Perfect competition: a market form with a very large number of buyers and sellers, homogeneous product and free entry and exit so an individual firm is a price taker
Homogeneous product. Homogeneous product: products of different firms are identical from the buyer’s point of view
Price taker. Price taker: a firm that accepts the market price because its individual output is too small to influence that price
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