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Explanation of Contestable Markets
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Contestable Marketsa market where there is a threat of competition
characteristics
potential entrants must know about cos
* Low barriers to entry ( exit and technology that if to
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they were
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Large pond of potential entrants enter the market , they would be on a
Firms
the market
already in
* Good information
regarding market conditions level
playing field .
* Incumbent firms subject to hit and run competition .
cause a serious threat of entry > when
profit
new
then leave
firms enter the market quickly , snatch some superno
quickly before firms can react and ↳ wer their pr
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Due increase in
to the
large technology in the last few decades the overall ante
stability of markets has increased giv
that businesses no
longer have to be physical entities , reducing start -
up costs and sunk costs .
Moreover it ,
makes technical
economies of scale easier to achieve and advertising easier to
carry out .
Therefore ,
barriers to entry are reduced .
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Technology has also increased the pod of potential entrants .
allowed for greater innovation increasing the amount of entrepreneurs with ideas they want to take to market
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allowed new entrants to find I create better production methods to disrupt existing firms .
Technology has also increased the
reliability and communication of information .
Example of a
firms behaviour in a untestable market
Monopoly A market doesn't have to be perfectly
contestable to experience contestable behowovir
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Ac If a monopoly is in a contestable market they would decrease
their supernormal profits to dissuade new firms from entering the
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However ,
new firms coming in with new
ideas
the benefit of dynamic efficiency . : progress ,
dynamic efficiency
innovat
good movements towards . . . * Lack of
g- fd ✓* Allocate efficiency * Cost cutting could be in dangerous areas ,
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g. health B safety
or
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e.e * Productive efficiency Creative disruption innovation could destroy losses
* existing firms and cause job
* X efficiency * Anti -
competitive strategies e.g mergers
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limit pricing can prevent long term
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