2. A place where buyer and seller are interact with
goods and services by selling and purchasing
at given price.
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4. Perfect competition is a market structure where
many firms offer a homogeneous product.
Eg: agricultural product
5. A perfectly competitive market must meet the
following requirements:
The sellers should supply identical products.
Firms can freely enter or exit in the market.
The number of firms is large.
Both buyer and seller are price taker.
Perfect knowledge about product quality, price
and cost.
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9. Imperfect competition is a competitive market
situation where there are many sellers, but they
are selling heterogeneous (dissimilar) goods.
10. Monopoly (only one seller)
Oligopoly (few seller of goods)
Monopolistic (many sellers with highly
differentiated product)
11. Monopolistic competition is a form of imperfect
competition.
It can be found in many real world markets
ranging from clusters of sandwich bars, other
fast food shops and coffee stores in a busy
town centre to pizza delivery businesses in a
city or hairdressers in a local area
12. A monopoly is a market environment where
there is only one provider of a certain
economic good or service for which no close
substitute exists.
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14. An oligopoly is a market dominated by a few
producers, each of which has control over the
market.
Oligopolies are prevalent throughout the world
and appear to be increasing ever so rapidly.
Unlike a monopoly, where one corporation
dominates a certain market, an oligopoly
consists of a select few companies having
significant influence over an industry