in 1971 Bangladesh achieved freedom.
1. large number of buyers and sellers. 2. homogeneous product.
IBM is a company, so it can't be a perfect competition. Only industries can be a perfect competition, or not.
Economists use two sets of concepts to answer questions. First they apply efficiency concepts such as productive efficiency. Then they ask how perfect competition and monopoly affect the consumer.
Perfect competition and monopolistic competition are distinct market structures, but they share some similarities. Perfect competition features many firms selling identical products, leading to no single firm influencing market prices. In contrast, monopolistic competition has many firms as well, but they sell differentiated products, allowing for some degree of market power. The term "monopolistic" in monopolistic competition refers to this ability of firms to set prices above marginal cost due to product differentiation, which is not present in perfect competition.
A flea market can be considered an example of perfect competition to some extent, as it features many sellers offering similar, but not identical, goods, allowing for consumer choice. However, it does not fully meet the criteria for perfect competition, such as homogenous products and perfect information, since the quality and variety of items can vary significantly. Additionally, sellers may have varying degrees of market power based on their uniqueness or popularity, which further deviates from the ideal of perfect competition.
Perfect competition to what. Please be specific.
No, Perfect Competition is just an imaginary one and it does not exist at all.
Perfect Competition
Markets can generally fall into two categories: perfect competition and imperfect competition. Perfect competition features many buyers and sellers, homogeneous products, and easy entry and exit, leading to optimal resource allocation. In contrast, imperfect competition includes monopolies, oligopolies, and monopolistic competition, where market power, differentiated products, and barriers to entry can distort pricing and output decisions.
Perfect competion lowers the cost of good and services by increasing the competition among firms.
Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition or Oligopoly
perfect competition