ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Competitive Equilibrium, Monopolistic Competition, Market Power

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12 Mar 2019
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One price for all sellers & buyers. We negotiate prices --> each individual is setting price. Sellers have limited power to set prices. Suppose capacity of firm is relative to demand. Copyrights & patents (monopoly created by law) Marginal revenue from the last unit sold >= marginal cost. Sell 3 units at --> sell 4 units at . Imperfectly competitive firm or price setter: firm with some latitude to set price. Pure monopoly: only supplier (no close substitutes) Monopolistic competition: many firms produce slightly differentiated products (close substitutes) Oligopoly: small number of firms produce close substitutes. Market power: firm"s ability to raise the price without losing all its sales. Constant returns to scale: all inputs are changed by a given proportion --> output changes by the same proportion. Increasing returns to scale (economies of scale): all inputs are change by a given proportion --> output changes by more than that proportion. Natural monopoly: monopoly results from economies of scale.

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