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Micro Ch 9
Stack based on Chapter 9 of Principles of Microeconomics 3e
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| barriers to entry | the legal, technological, or market forces that may discourage or prevent potential competitors from entering a market |
| deregulation | removing government controls over setting prices and quantities in certain industries |
| intellectual property | the body of law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret law that protect the right of inventors to produce and sell their inventions |
| legal monopoly | legal prohibitions against competition, such as regulated monopolies and intellectual property protection |
| marginal profit | profit of one more unit of output, computed as marginal revenue minus marginal cost |
| monopoly | a situation in which one firm produces all of the output in a market |
| natural monopoly | economic conditions in the industry, for example, economies of scale or control of a critical resource, that limit effective competition |
| patent | a government rule that gives the inventor the exclusive legal right to make, use, or sell the invention for a limited time |
| predatory pricing | when an existing firm uses sharp but temporary price cuts to discourage new competition |