Market Structures
Market Structures
Economists classify markets using four features: the number and size of firms, how differentiated the product is, barriers to entry and exit, and the quality of information. These features determine how much control a firm has over its own price. Perfect competition has the least price power, while monopoly has the greatest.
Step-by-step lessons on CIE Intl A Level Economics 7.6.1 perfect competition and imperfect competition: monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, natural monopoly. Each one builds up to exam-style questions.