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  2. Monopoly price - Wikipedia

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    A monopoly is a price maker, not a price taker, meaning that a monopoly has the power to set the market price. [ 14 ] The firm in monopoly is the market as it sets its price based on their circumstances of what best suits them.

  3. Monopolistic competition - Wikipedia

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    The company is able to collect a price based on the average revenue (AR) curve. The difference between the company's average revenue and average cost, multiplied by the quantity sold (Qs), gives the total profit. A short-run monopolistic competition equilibrium graph has the same properties of a monopoly equilibrium graph.

  4. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    A monopoly has considerable although not unlimited market power. A monopoly has the power to set prices or quantities although not both. [37] A monopoly is a price maker. [38] The monopoly is the market [39] and prices are set by the monopolist based on their circumstances and not the interaction of demand and supply. The two primary factors ...

  5. Monopoly price - en.wikipedia.org

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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. Average cost pricing - Wikipedia

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    Monopolists tend to produce less than the optimal quantity pushing the prices up. The government may use average cost pricing as a tool to regulate prices monopolists may charge. Average cost pricing forces monopolists to reduce price to where the firm's average total cost (ATC) intersects the market demand curve. The effect on the market would be:

  7. Market power - Wikipedia

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    Firms with monopoly power can charge a higher price for products (higher markup) as demand is relatively inelastic. [21] They also see a falling rate of labour share as firms divest from expensive inputs such as labour. [22] Often, firms with monopoly power exist in industries with high barriers to entry, which include, but are not limited to:

  8. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs.

  9. Limit price - Wikipedia

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    A limit price (or limit pricing) is a price, or pricing strategy, where products are sold by a supplier at a price low enough to make it unprofitable for other players to enter the market. It is used by monopolists to discourage entry into a market , and is illegal in many countries. [ 1 ]