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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. Perfect competition - Wikipedia

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    In perfect competition, any profit-maximizing producer faces a market price equal to its marginal cost (P = MC). This implies that a factor's price equals the factor's marginal revenue product. It allows for derivation of the supply curve on which the neoclassical approach is based.

  4. Monopolistic competition - Wikipedia

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    A monopolistically-competitive company might be said to be marginally inefficient because the company produces at an output where average total cost is not a minimum. A monopolistically competitive market is a productively inefficient market structure because marginal cost is less than price in the long run.

  5. Markup rule - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, a competitive firm by definition faces a perfectly elastic demand; hence it has = which means that it sets the quantity such that marginal cost equals the price. The rule also implies that, absent menu costs , a firm with market power will never choose a point on the inelastic portion of its demand curve (where ϵ ≥ − 1 ...

  6. Competition (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Competitive equilibrium is a concept in which profit-maximizing producers and utility-maximizing consumers in competitive markets with freely determined prices arrive at an equilibrium price. At this equilibrium price, the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded. [ 19 ]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Profit (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Another significant factor for profit maximization is market fractionation. A company may sell goods in several regions or in several countries. Profit is maximized by treating each location as a separate market. [21] Rather than matching supply and demand for the entire company the matching is done within each market.

  9. Monopoly profit - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Since a competitive market has many competing firms, a customer can buy widgets from any of the competing firms. [1] [4] [2] [5] Because of this tight competition, competing firms in a market each have their own horizontal demand curve that is fixed at a single price established by market equilibrium for the entire industry as a whole.