Oligopoly

A market is a system in which economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the aggregate interactions of a country's citizens and businesses and there is little government intervention or central planning. Different market structures exist because we can't just rely on ONE market to get everything, every market that exist sales at least something similar to the other markets or different. Monopoly is when someone has exclusive possession or control of the supply…

Market concentration is the extent to which, relatively small number of firms account for relatively large share in the market. In other words, it is the degree of monopoly power exercised by few firms. Alternative terms for market concentration are industrial concentration or seller’s concentration. Market concentration is considered as an important aspect of market structure as it reflects the market power and hence firm behavior and performance. Research Problem Probing into the existing…

Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition, under this a large number of sellers offer heterogeneous products (different products but has close substitutes) for sale to buyers. The term monopolistic competition was coined by Prof. Edward H. Chamberlin of Harvard University in 1933 in his book, Theory of Monopolistic Competition. Monopolistic competition is currently the most realistic situation that exists in the market. Monopolistic competition can be defined as a competitive…

2. Evaluate American’s 1992 announcement of a new rate structure: a. What changes did American make? American instituted a “simpler” four-tier fare system which sought to lower its top fares by as much as 50%. The move was expected to reduce next quarter’s revenue by $100MM, but increase annual revenue by $350MM. To accomplish this goal, American instituted the following changes:  First-class ticket prices would be reduced by 20-50%  Unrestricted one-way and round-trip coach fares would…

Monopoly competition Is a kind of incomplete competition, so many producers sell different products to each other, so it is not the perfect substitute. In a monopolistic competition, the firm treats the price charged by its rival as a given price and ignores the effect of its own price on the prices of other firms. The monopolistic competitive market has the following characteristics: 1. There are many producers on the market and many consumers, no business can fully control the market price. 2.…

OBJECTIVE NUMBER1: TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING AND CONCEPT OF MONOPOLY {A} Definition: Monopoly is a market structure in which there is a single seller, large number of buyers ; there are no close substitutes for the commodity it produces and there are barriers to entry. The word monopoly is made up of syllables-mono and poly.Mono means single and poly means seller. In simple words, monopoly is that market situation in which a seller has the sole right over production or sale of product and it…

Perfect competition: Perfect competition is the name given to an industry or to a market characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers engaged in the purchase and sale of a homogeneous commodity , with perfect knowledge of market price and quantities There are some characteristics of perfect competition: 1. Large number of buyers and sellers : In the perfect competition , a large number of buyers and sellers exists exists. However the high population of buyers and sellers fail to affect…

Monopoly situation exists when there is a single supplier of a unique product that has no close substitute. For example, Sky had a monopoly over the live football coverage. According to the 1998 Competition Act, abuse of dominant power means that a firm can 'behave independently of competitive pressures'. (Source: economicshelp.org) P MC…

Margaret Levenstein and Valerie Suslow seek out what determines a business cartel’s success. They reject the assumption of many economists that the main reason cartels fail comes from cheating firms, which undermine attempts by cartels to collude to raise prices and restrict output. They believe that cheating is just one facet of how a cartel can fail and not the main reason. To answer their question, Levenstein and Suslow attempt to answer four other research questions: 1. Can cartels succeed?…

1) Market based transfer prices Market based transfer prices occur where a perfectly competitive market exist for intermediate products which makes it optimal for both decision making and performance evaluation to set transfer prices at competitive market prices. A perfectly competitive market exist when products sold are all the same and no individual buyer or seller can affect market prices. Transfer prices are recorded at market prices therefore divisional performance is likely to represent…