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Chapter 7 (Market)
Economics Honors
Question | Answer |
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Perfect Competition | Firms all produce the same product and no single seller controls supply or prices |
Commodity | Product that is the same no matter who produces or sells it |
Barrier to Entry | Any fator that makes it difficult to a new firm to enter a market |
Imperfent Competition | Fails to meet the conditions of perfect competition |
Start-up Cost | A new business must pay before it can begin to produce and sell goods |
Monoply | Single seller dominates |
Economies of Scale | Factors that cause a produccer's average cost to fall as output rises |
Natural Monoply | market runs most efficiently when one large firm supplies all of the output |
Government Monopoly | monopoly created by the government |
Patenet | License, gives inventor of a new product the exclusive right to sell it for a specific period of time |
Frachise | Contract that ives a single firm the right to sell its goods within an exclusive market |
License | A government-issued right to operate a business |
Price Discrimination | the division of comsumers into groups based on how much they will pay for a good |
Market Power | The ability of a company to control prices and total market output |
Momopolistic Competition | A market structure in which many companies sell products that are similar but not identical |
Differentiation | Making a product different from other, similar product |
Nonprice Competition | A way to attract customers throught style, service, or location, but not a lower price |
Oligopoly | A market structure in which a few large firms dominate a market |
Price War | A series of competitve price cuts that lowers the market price below the ocst of production |
Collusion | An illegal agreement amoung firms to divide the market, set prices, or limit production |
Price fixing | An agreement amoung firms to change one orice for the same good |
Cartel | A formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production |
Predatory Pricing | selling a product below cost for a short period of time to drive competition out of the market |
Antitrust Laws | Laws that encourage competition in the marketplace |
Trust | An illegal grouping of companies that discourages competition |
Merger | When two or more companies join together to form one firm |
Deregulation | The removal of some government controls over a market |