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market structure
chapter 6
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Economics
12th Grade
03/27/2012

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Perfect Competition

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pure competition, is an ideal market structure in which buyers, or consumers and sellers, or producers, each compete directly.
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Buyers

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or consumers.
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Sellers

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or producers.
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Monopoly

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one seller controls all production of a good or service.
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Monopolistic Competition

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sellers offer different, rather then identical, products.
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Differentiate

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or point out diffrences, between their products and those of their competitors.
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Product Diffrentiation

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pointing out diffrences between two products.
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Nonprice Competition

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competeing on a basis other than price.
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Oligopoly

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a market structure in which a few large sellers control most of the production of a good or service.
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Interdependent Pricing

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by being very responsive to- or dependent on-the pricing actions of their competitors.
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Price Leadership

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one of the largest sellers in the market takes the lead by setting a price for its products.
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Price War

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sellers aggressively undercut each other's prices in an attempt to gain market share.
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Collusion

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when sellers secretly agree to set production levels or prices for their products.
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Cartel

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companies openly organize a system of price setting and market sharing.
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Natural Monopolies

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a single large seller that produces a good or service most efficiently.
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Economies of Scale

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large scale seller's can usethere capital more efficiently then small scale seller's.
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Geographic Monopolies

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the geography of the land makes it so only one company is willing to set up shop there, thus making a monopoly.
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Technological Monopolies

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a single company being the only one with the technology to build a good or service.
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Patent

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gives a person or company an exclusive right to build a certain good.
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Copyrights

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the U.S. goverment gives exclusive rights to publish a song , or a book to authors and musicians.
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Goverment Monopolies

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the goverment provides public goods that can't always be sold through normal businesses.
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Trusts

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"big business" or huge monopolies.
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Laissez-Faire

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economic philosiphy.
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Antitrust Legislation

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designed to moniter and regulate big businesses.
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