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  2. Perfect competition - Wikipedia

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    Only in the short run can a firm in a perfectly competitive market make an economic profit. Economic profit does not occur in perfect competition in long run equilibrium; if it did, there would be an incentive for new firms to enter the industry, aided by a lack of barriers to entry until there was no longer any economic profit. [11]

  3. Market power - Wikipedia

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    Firms competing in a perfectly competitive market faces a market price that is equal to their marginal cost, therefore, no economic profits are present. The following criteria need to be satisfied in a perfectly competitive market: Producers sell homogenous goods; All firms are price takers; Perfect information; No barriers to enter and exit

  4. Market structure - Wikipedia

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    Perfect competition refers to a type of market where there are many buyers and sellers that feature free barriers to entry, dealing with homogeneous products with no differentiation, where the price is fixed by the market. Individual firms are price takers [3] as the price is set by the industry as a whole. Example: Agricultural products which ...

  5. List of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue

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    This is a list of the world's largest non-governmental privately held companies by revenue. This list does not include state-owned enterprises like Sinopec, State Grid, China National Petroleum, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Pemex, Petrobras, PDVSA and others. These corporations have revenues of at least US$10 billion.

  6. 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.

  7. Industrial organization - Wikipedia

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    In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perfectly competitive model, complications such as transaction costs , [ 1 ] limited information , and ...

  8. Free entry - Wikipedia

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    Free entry is part of the perfect competition assumption that there are an unlimited number of buyers and sellers in a market. In conditions in which there is not a natural monopoly caused by unlimited economies of scale , free entry prevents any existing firm from maintaining a monopoly , which would restrict output and charge a higher price ...

  9. Duopoly - Wikipedia

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    In a Bertrand duopoly, two firms compete on price instead of quantity. Each firm assumes that its rival's price is fixed and chooses its own price to maximize profit. This model predicts that, under certain conditions, firms will set prices equal to marginal cost, leading to perfect competition.