Market Structures: Perfect Competition and Monopoly

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  1. 2. Sellers engage in this when they charge different prices to different consumers for the same good.
  2. 5. In a perfect competition model, firms rely on the market for pricing and are known as ________.
  3. 6. In order to maximize profits, perfectly competitive firms sell where MR and ________ intersect.
  4. 7. In perfect competition, where P=ATC, the firm is __________.
  5. 8. In Monopoly and Oligopoly, these are high, in Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition they are low.
  6. 12. competition: A market structure in which there is a large number of firms, each having a small portion of the market share and slightly differentiated products. There are close substitutes for the product of any given firm, so competitors have slight control over price.
  7. 13. In perfect competition, where P>ATC, the firm is __________.
  8. 14. a type of monopoly that exists typically due to the high start-up costs or powerful economies of scale.
  9. 15. An industry structure where a single firm produces a product for which there are no close substitutes. Price makers.
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  1. 1. In perfect competition, the MC curve will take on this “copywritten” swoosh.
  2. 2. competition: An industry structure in which there are many firms, none large enough to influence the industry, producing homogeneous products.
  3. 3. When the market price is below the minimum average variable cost, the perfectly competitive firm should:
  4. 4. AVC stands for this _______ cost.
  5. 9. Marginal cost and Price and demand are equal to this in perfect competition
  6. 10. An industry structure in which there are a few firms producing products that range from slightly differentiated to highly differentiated. Each firm is large enough to influence the industry.
  7. 11. In perfect competition, where P<ATC, the firm is __________.