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  2. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    A successful monopoly would have a relatively inelastic demand curve. A low coefficient of elasticity is indicative of effective barriers to entry. A PC company has a perfectly elastic demand curve. The coefficient of elasticity for a perfectly competitive demand curve is infinite. [20]

  3. Monopolistic competition - Wikipedia

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    For a PC company, this equilibrium condition occurs where the perfectly elastic demand curve equals minimum average cost. An MC company's demand curve is not flat but is downward-sloping. Thus, the demand curve will be tangential to the long-run average cost curve at a point to the left of its minimum. The result is excess capacity. [22]

  4. Market power - Wikipedia

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    The graph below depicts the kinked demand curve hypothesis which was proposed by Paul Sweezy who was an American economist. [29] It is important to note that this graph is a simplistic example of a kinked demand curve. Kinked Demand Curve. Oligopolistic firms are believed to operate within the confines of the kinked demand function.

  5. Monopoly price - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] A monopoly occurs when a firm lacks any viable competition and is the sole producer of the industry's product. [1] [2] Because a monopoly faces no competition, it has absolute market power and can set a price above the firm's marginal cost. [1] [2] The monopoly ensures a monopoly price exists when it establishes the quantity of the ...

  6. Demand curve - Wikipedia

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    The shift of a demand curve takes place when there is a change in any non-price determinant of demand, resulting in a new demand curve. [11] Non-price determinants of demand are those things that will cause demand to change even if prices remain the same—in other words, the things whose changes might cause a consumer to buy more or less of a ...

  7. Monopoly profit - Wikipedia

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    Although a regulated monopoly will not have a monopoly profit that is high as it would be in an unregulated situation, it still can have an economic profit that is still above what a competitive firm has in a truly competitive market. [2] Government regulations of the price the monopoly can charge reduce the monopoly profit, but do not ...

  8. The Economics of Imperfect Competition - Wikipedia

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    It also explores the effect of changes in demand on individual sellers' costs and analyzes the supply curve of a commodity under perfect competition. Book IV: The Comparison of Monopoly and Competitive Output - This book compares the output of a perfectly competitive industry with that of a monopoly when the number of independent producers is ...

  9. Edgeworth paradox - Wikipedia

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    Edgeworth's model follows Bertrand's hypothesis, where each seller assumes that the price of its competitor, not its output, remains constant. Suppose there are two sellers, A and B, facing the same demand curve in the market. To explain Edgeworth's model, let us first assume that A is the only seller in the market.