ADMS 1010 Study Guide - Investment Canada, Effective Competition, Imperfect Competition

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13 Apr 2013

School

York University

Department

Administrative Studies

Course

ADMS 1010

Professor

Barry O' Brien

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Perfect competition: many sellers of the product so that no individual seller produces a significant share of the quantity available to the market, all firms produce exactly the same product. It is an industry in which single firms have some control over the price of their output ex. Market power is the imperfectly competitive firm"s ability to raise price without losing all demand for its product. Competition forces firms to adjust prices to the market. Found initially on scale and scope elements of production and distribution. Flexibility and innovation can falter in the face of the needs of the dominant brand. Oil industry has an early history of monopoly and a late of oligopoly. Product branding and create a entry barrier. The investment canada act allows the minister 45 days to determine whether or not an application for review should be allowed, but the minister may unilaterally extend by an additional 30 days.

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What are the three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? For a market to be perfectly competitive, there must be:

A. many buyers and one seller, with the firm producing a product that has no close substitutes, and barriers to new firms entering the market.

B. many buyers and sellers, with firms selling similar but not identical products, with low barriers to new firms entering the market

C. many buyers and a few sellers, with all firms selling identical products, and no barriers to new firms entering the market.

D. many buyers and sellers, with all firms selling identical products, and no barriers to new firms entering the market.

E. many buyers and a small number of firms that compete, selling differentiated products, and barriers to new firms entering the market.

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13. One of the limitations of Five Forces is that:

a. These tools reduce producer surplus

b. For one firm to increase profit, it takes it from other participants in the industry

c. Does not provide a firm with sustainable competitve advantage

d. both b & c.

15. All these are characterisctics of a monopoly except,

a. There is one seller of the product

b. Has few substitutes

c. Controls a large share of the market

d. Controls a small share of the market

22. Industries with high barriers to entry

a. Pushes profits to normal returns

b. increases the likelihood of firms entering the industry

c. help firms sustain profits

d. increases the number of competitors

14. How does Ebay differ from an economist's view of a perfect competitve market?

a. Ebay has few buyers whereas perfect competitve industry assumes many buyers

b. Ebay has few sellers whereas perfect competitve industry assumes many sellers

c. There is limited information in ebay whereas perfect competitive industry assumes full information for both buyers and sellers

d. There is no difference between these two markets

26. Low cost strategies are usually found in industries where

a. Products are not particularly differentiated

b. Price competion tends to be fierce

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

Cigarettes - Price Elasticity of demand = - 0.67

A. Cigarettes

B. Alcohol

C. Sodas

D. None of the above

2. The demand for insulin will be ______________ than the demand for a Caribbean cruise in general

a. More elastic

b. More inelastic

c. Less elastic

d. Less inelastic

1. Characteristics of competitive markets

The model of competitive markets relies on these three core assumptions:

1.	There must be many buyers and sellers a few players can't dominate the market.
2.	Firms must produce an identical product buyer must regard all sellers' products as equivalent.
3.	Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing for free entry into and exit from the industry.

The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessary for price-taking behaviour, assume for this problem that a market cannot maintain competition in the long run without free entry.

Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.

Is the scenario	Competitive?
Dozens of companies produce plain white socks. Consumers regard plain white socks as identical and don't care who manufactures their socks.
In a major metropolitan area, one chain of coffee shops has gained a large market share because customers feel its coffee tastes better than that of its competitors.
Scholastik Inc. owns the U.S. copyright to a popular book series. It is the only company with the legal right to publish books in the series in the United States.
In a small town, there are two providers of broadband Internet access: a cable company and the phone company. The Internet access offered by both providers is of the same speed.

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