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Market structureThe way that suppliers and demanders in an industry interact to determine price and quantity. There are four main idealized market structures that have been used in trade theory: perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition.Similar MatchesStructured noteStructured noteA derivative investment that will change in value with movements of an underlying index; or a note whose issuer makes swap arrangements to alter its required cash flows. Structured portfolio strategyStructured portfolio strategyDesigning a portfolio to achieve a level of performance that matches some predetermined liabilities that must be paid out in the future. Pie model of capital structurePie model of capital structureA model of the debt-equity ratio of the firms, graphically depicted in slices of a pie that represent the value of the firm in the capital markets. Pecking order view (of capital structure)Pecking order view (of capital structure)The argument that external financing transactions costs, especially those associated with the problem of adverse selection, create a dynamic environment in which firms have a preference, or pecking-order of preferred sources of financing, when all else is equal. Internally generated funds are the most preferred, followed by new debt, and debt-equity hybrids. Finally, new equity is at the least preferred source. Neighborhood production structureNeighborhood production structureA structure of technology for a general equilibrium model due to Jones and Kierzkowski (1986). With an arbitrary but equal number of goods and factors, each factor produces two (different) goods, each good uses two (different) factors, in a way that yields more unambiguous results than one normally finds in high-dimension trade models without specific factors. Further SuggestionsStructured settlementRestructured loan capital structure Structured debt Structured arbitrage transaction Market microstructure Personal tax view (of capital structure) Infrastructure Term structure of interest rates |
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