what are the characteristics of the four market structures?
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Economic market structures can be grouped into four categories: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. The categories differ because of the following characteristics: The number of producers is many in perfect and monopolistic competition, few in oligopoly, and one in monopoly.
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['Nature and Size of Customers:', 'Complexity of Buying:', 'Economic and technical choice criteria:', 'Risks:', 'Buying to specific requirements:', 'Reciprocal buying:', 'Derived demand:', 'Negotiation:']
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What are the six major characteristics of a pure market economy? Freedom of enterprise, little or no government control, freedom of choice, private property, profit incentive, and competition.
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['Needs, wants, and demands,', 'Market offerings such as products, services, and experiences,', 'Value, satisfaction, and quality,', 'Exchange, transactions, and relationships, and.', 'Markets.']
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['One commodity: ADVERTISEMENTS: ... ', 'Area: In economics, market does not refer only to a fixed location. ... ', 'Buyers and Sellers: ... ', 'Perfect Competition: ... ', 'Business relationship between Buyers and Sellers: ... ', 'Perfect Knowledge of the Market: ... ', 'One Price: ... ', 'Sound Monetary System:']
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The five major market system types are Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition and Monopsony.
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['Many sellers.', 'Product Differentiation.', 'Free entry and exit.', 'Long run profits = 0.', 'Firm has market power (not a price taker)', 'Downward sloping demand curve.', 'Many close substitutes.']
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It focuses on the interaction between suppliers and consumers and can be determined on the basis of various criteria. These criteria depend on different characteristics of a market. These include the size and value as well as the number of suppliers, the buying behavior of consumers, or growth forecasts.
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['Number of Sellers. ... ', 'Prices of Resources. ... ', 'Taxes and Subsidies. ... ', 'Technology. ... ', "Suppliers' Expectations. ... ", 'Prices of Related Products. ... ', 'Prices of Joint Products.']
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There are four different types of Economic Systems; a traditional economy, a market economy, a command economy, and a mixed economy. Each type of economy has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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There are 4 basic market models: pure competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and pure monopoly. Because market competition among the last 3 categories is limited, these market models are often referred to as imperfect competition.
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['Size. The bigger the market size, the better.', 'Urgency. The more urgently people need the products in that market, the better. ... ', 'Speed to market. ... ', 'High pricing potential. ... ', 'Low cost of acquiring new customers. ... ', 'Low cost and ease of delivering. ... ', 'Uniqueness. ... ', 'Low upfront investment.']
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['Each firm is small relative to the market and has no influence on price.', 'Firms and products are substitutable.', 'Each consumer is small relative to the market and has no influence on price.', 'Perfect information about prices and quantities is available.', 'There is easy entry into and exit from the market.']
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['Market size.', 'Market growth.', 'Pricing trends.', 'Intensity of the competition.', 'Overall risk in the industry.', 'Opportunity to differentiate products and services.']
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['There are many buyers and sellers in the market.', 'Each company makes a similar product.', 'Buyers and sellers have access to perfect information about price.', 'There are no transaction costs.', 'There are no barriers to entry into or exit from the market.']
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['Large number of buyers and sellers.', 'Each seller offers an identical product.', 'Minimal barriers to entry.', 'Sellers have no pricing power.', 'No non-price competition in the market.']
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Brief explanations are given for these characteristics of the market system: private property, freedom of enterprise and choice, the role of self-interest, competition, markets and prices, the reliance on technology and capital goods, specialization, use of money, and the active, but limited role of government.