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What is the one main difference between a monopoly and an oligopoly?

Firms in oligopoly can set prices to a degree but must consider other firms' decisions.


What is difference between perfect competition and oligopoly?

the difference between perfect and imperfect oligopoly


What are the similarities between oligopoly and pure monopoly?

They both have to deal with money and buying out.


What is meant by market structure?

An oligopoly is an intermediate market structure between the extremes of perfect competition and monopoly. Oligopoly firms might compete (noncooperative oligopoly) or cooperate (cooperative oligopoly) in the Marketplace.


What s the difference between monopoly and oligony?

The definition of monopoly is one firm in the marketplace selling a particular good. An oligopoly is when a small group of firms comprise the market for a particular good. In the real world, there may be several, or even many, smaller competitors to a monopoly or an oligopoly, but the monopolist or the oligopoly still controls the vast share of the market. For example, Standard Oil repeatedly drove new entrants out of the market before its breakup.


What is the meaning of the word oligopoly?

An oligopoly is an intermediate market structure between the extremes of perfect competition and monopoly. Oligopoly firms might compete (noncooperative oligopoly) or cooperate (cooperative oligopoly) in the Marketplace.


What are the 4 basic market structure and explain how they differ from one another?

The four basic market structures are perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. Perfect competition has many small firms producing identical products, while monopolistic competition has many firms selling similar but not identical products. Oligopoly has a few large firms dominating the market, while a monopoly has a single firm controlling the entire market. The main difference between them lies in the number of firms in the market and the level of product differentiation.


What is the difference between the term 'monopoly' and 'natural monopoly'?

The difference between the term 'monopoly' and 'natural monopoly' is a monopoly is a market situation one group controls the availability and price of a service or item. A natural monopoly is a service or item that is provided by a single sorce. An example would be transportation like buses, or taxies.


What is the difference between being a monopoly and attempting to become a monopoly?

Being a monopoly is to run the buissness but attemting is to be trying to get one but not have one


Difference between collusive and non-collusive oligopoly?

If in an oligopoly market, the firms compete with each other, it is called a non-collusive, or non-cooperative oligopoly. If the firm cooperate with each other in determining price or output or both, it is called collusive oligopoly, or cooperative oligopoly. Collusive oligopoly exists when the firms in an Oligopolistic market charge the same prices for their products, in affect acting as a monopoly but dividing any profits that they make. Non collusive oligopoly exists when the firms in an oligopoly do not collude and so have to be very aware of the reactions of other firms when making price decisions.


What conditions does competition occur?

What is the difference between perfect competition and pure monopoly


One difference between a perfectly competitive firm and a monopoly is that a perfectly competitive firm produces where?

perfectly competitive industry become a monopoly, what changes