Market Structures

Some articles on market structures, market structure, market:

Monopoly (economics) - Market Structures
... In economics, the idea of monopoly is important for the study of market structures, which directly concerns normative aspects of economic competition, and ... There are four basic types of market structures by traditional economic analysis perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly ... A monopoly is a market structure in which a single supplier produces and sells a given product ...
Market Structure
... In economics, market structure is the number of firms producing identical products which are homogeneous ... The types of market structures include the following Monopolistic competition, also called competitive market, where there is a large number of firms, each having a small proportion of the market share and ... Oligopoly, in which a market is dominated by a small number of firms that together control the majority of the market share ...

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