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Econ 7 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Market structure in which a few large sellers dominate the industry | Oligopoly |
| Market structure that does not meet all conditions of perfect competition | Imperfect Competition |
| Ruling requiring a company to stop an unfair business practice that reduces or limits competition | Cease and desist order |
| Illegal combination of corporations or companies organized to hinder competition | Trust |
| Beneficial side effect that affects an uninvolved third party | Positive externality |
| Harmful side effect that affects an uninvolved third party | Negative externality |
| Goods or services whose benefits are available to everyone and are paid for collectively | Public goods |
| Condition that causes a competitive market to fail | Market Failure |
| Monopoly based on firms ownership or control of a production method, process, or other scientific advance | Technological |
| Market structure that meets all conditions of perfect competition except identical products | Monopolistic Competition |
| Market Structure in which one firm has a monopoly in a geographic area | Geographic |
| Situation in which the average cost of production falls as a firm gets larger | Economies of Scale |
| Market structure where average production are lowest when a single firm exists | Natural monopoly |
| To act together in secret with a single seller of a particular product | Monopoly |
| To act together in secret, especially with harmful or illegal intent | Collude |
| Agreement, usually illegal, among producers to fix prices, limit output, or divide markets | Price Fixing |
| Sales strategy on a product's appearance, quality, or design rather than its price | Collusion |
| Real or imagined difference between competing products in the same industry | Non price competition |
| Real or imagined differences between competing products in the same industry | Product differentiation |
| Market structure with many well-informed and independent buyers and sellers who exchange identical products | Perfect competition |
| A monopoly owned and operated by the government | Government |
| Nature and degree of competition among firms in the same industry | Market structure |
| Requirement that a business reveal information about its products or its operations to the pubilic | Public disclosure |
| Practice of selling the same product at different buyers | Price Discrimination |