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CompetitionThe interactions between two or more sellers or buyers in a single market, each attempting to get or pay the most favorable price. Economists usually interpret and model these interactions as among individual economic agents -- firms or consumers. Popular terminology extends also to competition among nations, especially competing exporters.CompetitionIntra- or intermarket rivalry between or among businesses trying to obtain a larger piece of the same market share.Competition Similar MatchesBertrand competitionBertrand competitionThe assumption, assumed to be made by firms in an oligopoly, that other firms hold their prices constant as they themselves change behavior. Contrasts with Cournot competition. Both are used in models of international oligopoly, but Cournot competition is used more often. Perfect competitionPerfect competitionAn idealized market structure in which there are large numbers of both buyers and sellers, all of them small, so that they act as price takers. Perfect competition also assumes homogeneous products, free entry and exit, and complete information. Most international trade theory prior to the New Trade Theory assumed perfect competition. Competition policyCompetition policyPolicies intended to prevent collusion among firms and to prevent individual firms from having excessive market power. Major forms include oversight of mergers and prevention of price fixing and market sharing. Called "anti-trust policy" in the U.S. One of the Singapore Issues. Perfect competitionPerfect competitionAn idealized market environment in which every market participant is too small to affect the market price by acting on its own. Monopolistic competitionMonopolistic competitionA market structure in which there are many sellers each producing a differentiated product. Each can set its own price and quantity, but is too small for that to matter for prices and quantities of other producers in the industry. Further SuggestionsCournot competitionImperfect competition In competition Competition ahead |
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