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Economics
12th Grade
11/19/2010

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Homogeneous Product
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Products are the same or similar; easily substituted
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Heterogenous Products
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Differentiated product; real or percieved differences exist (color, style, quality)
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Price leadership
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Action taken by industy leader (i.e. Sony) to raise the price; other large firms follow suit (Corporation)
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Price Taker
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A firm that takes the market price determined by supply and demand
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Price Setter
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a firm that has control over the price of the product is sells; no competition
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Anti-Trust Leadership
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Bills and acts designed to monitor and regulate big business, prevent monoplies
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Sole Proprietership
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Owned and controlled by one person
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Partnership
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owned and controlled by two or more people
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Corporation
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owned by the stockholders and treated by law as an individual
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Pure Oligopoly
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Determined by market and considerable discreation prossible price leadership
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