This document provides a detailed overview of economic concepts related to perfect competition, monopoly, and market failure. Key topics include externalities, marginal revenue, marginal cost, average cost, profit, and the distinction between short-run and long-run market behavior. It also addresse...
Perfect Competition T
Perfectly Competitive Market assumptions
Many buyers sellers
Allfirms sell homogenous same products
Iff Revenue
Costs
No barriers to entry in the market
Ell's pricetakers no single buyer seller can affect market price
No arbitrage buying in one market selling in another
sunk costs costs that cannot be changed ignore them
fixed costs costs that don't vary with quantity produced
variable costs costs that vary with quantity produced
hort Run period before entry exit occurs ignore FC
ong Run period after all entry exit occurs
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Industry all firms that sell a
particular good or service
characteristics
aggin 1 Number of firms
2 similarity of good service
3 Ease new firms can enter industry
Industrial organization study of firm
Agglomeration effect structure industries and competition
benefits of industries clustering
together
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