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  2. Perfect competition - Wikipedia

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    The short-run supply curve for a perfectly competitive firm is the marginal cost curve at and above the shutdown point. Portions of the marginal cost curve below the shutdown point are not part of the SR {\displaystyle {\text{SR}}} supply curve because the firm is not producing any positive quantity in that range.

  3. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In a perfectly competitive market the price is given by the marketplace from the point of view of the supplier; a manager of a competitive firm can state what quantity of goods will be supplied for any price by simply referring to the firm's marginal cost curve. To generate his supply function the seller could simply initially hypothetically ...

  4. Shutdown (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In the long run a firm operates where marginal revenue equals long-run marginal costs, but only if it decides to remain in the industry. [30] Thus a perfectly competitive firm's long-run supply curve is the long-run marginal cost curve above the minimum point of the long-run average cost curve. [31]

  5. Marginal cost - Wikipedia

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    The portion of the marginal cost curve above its intersection with the average variable cost curve is the supply curve for a firm operating in a perfectly competitive market (the portion of the MC curve below its intersection with the AVC curve is not part of the supply curve because a firm would not operate at a price below the shutdown point ...

  6. Monopolistic competition - Wikipedia

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    Like perfect competition, under monopolistic competition also, the companies can enter or exit freely. The companies will enter when the existing companies are making super-normal profits. With the entry of new companies, the supply would increase which would reduce the price and hence the existing companies will be left only with normal profits.

  7. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...

  8. Competition (economics) - Wikipedia

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    The firm, on the other hand, is aiming to maximize profits acting under the assumption of the criteria for perfect competition. The firm in a perfectly competitive market will operate in two economic time horizons; the short-run and long-run. In the short-run the firm adjusts its quantity produced according to prices and costs.

  9. Porter's five forces analysis - Wikipedia

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    A graphical representation of Porter's five forces. Porter's Five Forces Framework is a method of analysing the competitive environment of a business. It draws from industrial organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and, therefore, the attractiveness (or lack thereof) of an industry in terms of its profitability.