Many Buyers and sellers
Homogeneous products
Free entry or exit of firms
Perfect information
higher than in perfect competition
In monopolistic competition, sellers can profit from the differences between their products and other products.
Perfect Competition
perfect competition
There are four basic market models based on the amount of competition within the industry. They are pure competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and pure monopoly.
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Many Buyers and sellers Homogeneous products Free entry or exit of firms Perfect information
There are a lot more than four conditions, but "homogeneous" products (there's no such thing as identical products) are one of the ways you tell if a market is operating under perfect competition.
What is the difference between perfect competition and pure monopoly
The four degrees of competition that exist in a capitalistic economy are: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.
Many Buyers and sellers Homogeneous products Free entry or exit of firms Perfect information
pure or perfect, monopolistic, oligopoly, and monopoly
Perfect competition is perfectly elastic (taken from my Economics textbook)...still searching on the other three.
Perfect competition is perfectly elastic (taken from my Economics textbook)...still searching on the other three.
Same fast food restaurants in a town
IBM is a company, so it can't be a perfect competition. Only industries can be a perfect competition, or not.