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  2. Profit maximization - Wikipedia

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    Profit maximization using the total revenue and total cost curves of a perfect competitor. To obtain the profit maximizing output quantity, we start by recognizing that profit is equal to total revenue minus total cost (). Given a table of costs and revenues at each quantity, we can either compute equations or plot the data directly on a graph.

  3. Market power - Wikipedia

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    An oligopoly may engage in collusion, either tacit or overt to exercise market power and manipulate prices to control demand and revenue for a collection of firms. A group of firms that explicitly agree to affect market price or output is called a cartel , with the organization of petroleum-exporting countries ( OPEC ) being one of the most ...

  4. Bertrand–Edgeworth model - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900) developed the model of Bertrand competition in oligopoly. This approach was based on the assumption that there are at least two firms producing a homogenous product with constant marginal cost (this could be constant at some positive value, or with zero marginal cost as in Cournot).

  5. Oligopoly - Wikipedia

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    If the firms are colluding in the oligopoly, they can set the price at a high profit-maximising level. Perfect and imperfect knowledge: Oligopolies have perfect knowledge of their own cost and demand functions, but their inter-firm information may be incomplete. If firms in an oligopoly collude, information between firms then may become perfect.

  6. Cournot competition - Wikipedia

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    The firms are economically rational and act strategically, usually seeking to maximize profit given their competitors' decisions. An essential assumption of this model is the "not conjecture" that each firm aims to maximize profits, based on the expectation that its own output decision will not have an effect on the decisions of its rivals.

  7. Differentiated Bertrand competition - Wikipedia

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    p 1 = firm 1's price level pr unit; p 2 = firm 2's price level pr unit; b 1 = slope coefficient for how much firm 2's price affects firm 1's demand; b 2 = slope coefficient for how much firm 1's price affects firm 2's demand; q 1 =A 1-a 1 *p 1 +b 1 *p 2; q 2 =A 2-a 2 *p 2 +b 2 *p 1; The above figure presents the best response functions of the ...

  8. Kinked demand - Wikipedia

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    Classical economic theory assumes that a profit-maximizing producer with some market power (either due to oligopoly or monopolistic competition) will set marginal costs equal to marginal revenue. This idea can be envisioned graphically by the intersection of an upward-sloping marginal cost curve and a downward-sloping marginal revenue curve ...

  9. Lerner index - Wikipedia

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    A perfectly competitive firm charges P = MC, L = 0; such a firm has no market power. An oligopolist or monopolist charges P > MC, so its index is L > 0, but the extent of its markup depends on the elasticity (the price-sensitivity) of demand and strategic interaction with competing firms. The index rises to 1 if the firm has MC = 0.