In: Economics
(Attributes) Competitive Market Monopolistically Competitive Market
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Price is equal to marginal revenue
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Product Differentiation
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Many Sellers
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Free Entry
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Complete the table by indicating if each attribute characterizes a competitive market, a monopolistically competitive market, both, or neither. Check all that apply.
Please! Respond in a way that is easy to understand and organize it just the way i have shown above.
Price is equal to marginal revenue
Answer: perfectly competitive firm
Explanation : perfectly competitive firm faces horizontal demand curve and they are price taker. So the additional revenue generated by the firm is equals to price as price is same for all the levels of output.
Monopolistically competitive firm faces downward sloping demand curve and marginal curve for monopolistically competitive firm is below the demand curve.
Product Differentiation:
Monopolistically competitive firm
Explanation :
Perfectly competitive market produce identical products.. Monopolistically competitive firms produce identical but differentiate products.
Many Sellers
Monopolistically competitive firm
Perfectly competitive market.
Explanation :
There are many sellers in the both the market. In monopoly it is one firm and in oligopoly there are few firms.
Free Entry
Both
Explanation :
Both the firm has free entry and exit so both the earns zero economic profit.