Monopoly - Types of market structure

8 important questions on Monopoly - Types of market structure

What are the four models of market structure?

  • Perfect competition
  • monopoly
  • oligopoly
  • monopolistic competition  

What 2 dimensions are the system of market structures based on?

  • The number of producers in the market
  • whether the good offered are identical or differentiated

What do we call the good that are different yet substitutable by consumers?

Differentiated
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What market structure  only has a single producer sells a single undifferentiated product?

Monopoly

What market structure  has a few producers, but not a large amount, and it sells products that may be differentiated or identical?

Oligopoly

What determines the number of firms in a market?

In the ling run it depends on whether there are conditions that make it difficult for new firms to enter the market with barriers to entry

Why do some markets have differentiated products but other have identical ones?

Some goods can readily be made into different varieties in the eyes and taste of consumers, while other goods are much less differentiated

In which market structure is the kind of behavior good for producers, but bad for consumers? Why? What tries to limit the damage?

In a monopoly
because it causes inefficiency
which  public policy tries to limit the damage

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