INT MGL ECON EXAM 3 Flashcards
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Pure Competition Basic Requirements (4)
- Goods and Services must be Homogeneous
- Perfect Market Knowledge
- Easy Entry & Exit to/from the market
- No buyer or seller can outback the price
Types of Monopolies (4)
- Strategic Resource Monopoly
- Patent or copy right monopoly
- Natural Monopoly
- Legal Monopoly
Monopolistic Competition Basic Requirements (4)
- Perfect Market Knowledge
- Easy to entry/exit to/from the Market
- Many buyers and sellers
- Not homogeneous goods -> Main difference with pure competition
Oligopoly Definition
Just a few firms with identical or differentiated goods & services which have interdependency in decision making and price war or collusion (Illegal)
Types of Oligopolies (2)
- Identical or Pure Oligopoly
2. Differentiated Oligopoly
Collusion Definition
Formation of a cartel: an optimal solution through which firms join together to act as a monopoly and increase profits
Types of Cartel (2)
- Centralized Cartel
2. Market-Shared Cartel
- Centralized Cartel
Central Office where the firms decide the production levels of each member and their QMax Profits & Profit Quotas
- Market-Shared Cartel
Members divide market by region, industry or type of buyer. Example: In the US, its divided by States and by consumers, industrial, commercial & consumer. Problems arise with the allocation of production companies in different states and regions.
(3) Natural Forces against the Cartel
- Firm B is payed not to produced
- New entries of firms makes it difficult to maintain all members as part of the cartel
- Firms cheat and produce more to reduce the price
Oligopolistic Market Structure
- There are substantial problems in the Long Run
- MR<P
- Too much resources spent on advertising and differentiation
- Interdependency of prices
- Game Theory
Game Theory Definition
Centers on the best or optimal choice or strategy a firms can choose in a system of conflict
Game Theory Model (8)
- Players
- Strategies
- Payoff
- Payoff Matrix
- Zero Sum Game
- Non Zero Sum Game
- Dominant Strategy
- Nash Equilibrium
- Players
Decision makers, who’s behavior is trying to predict others
- Strategies
Choices available, which have an impact in your and others profits
- Payoff
The outcome of all possible combinations of strategies
- Payoff Matrix
The table of all the possible outcomes and strategies available
- Zero Sum Game
The game of one player outsets at the expense of the other player
- Non Zero Sum Game
When the game is not at the expense of the other and doesn’t outsets any games
- Dominant Strategy
When the strategy that a firm chooses is their best option no matter what the other firm chooses
-Dominant Strategy is always Nash Equilibrium
- Nash Equilibrium
An equilibrium where not all the players have a dominant strategy and each chooses their optimal strategy given the other firm’s decision
Price Discrimination
Charging different prices for different quantities or at different times or at different customer groups or different markets where differences are not justified by cost
Price Discrimination Requirements (3)
- Control over price
- Price elasticity of demand must be different in markets or in market quantities
- Resale form the cheaper to the expensive must be blocked
- First Degree Price Discrimination
The vendor has so much control over the market to charge each buyer the highest price they are willing to pay. Highly difficult to achieve