goal to form a monopoly firm called “Wonks”. After purchase of these firms, the two lawyers then hired a management consulting firm to estimate the long-run competitive equilibrium of this new monopoly. The following paper will discuss the benefits of this new monopoly towards stakeholders involved, the changes that may occur in price and output of the product in this particular market structure; and market structure that will most benefit the Wonks potato chip monopoly. A monopoly is defined as
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Potato Chip Monopoly In 2007, the potato chip industry in the Northwest was competitively structured and in long-run competitive equilibrium; firms were earning a normal rate of return and were competing in a monopolistically competitive market structure. In 2008, two smart lawyers quietly bought up all the firms and began operations as a monopoly called “Wonks.” To operate efficiently, Wonks hired a management consulting firm, which estimated a different long-run competitive equilibrium. In
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According to business definition, market structures are described as the makeup of a particular market. Market structure can be described with reference to different characteristics of a market, including its size and value, the number of providers and their market share, consumer and business purchasing behavior, and growth forecasts. The description may also include a demographic and regional breakdown of providers and customers and an analysis of pricing structures, likely technological impacts
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Maximizing Profits in Market Structures Market structures are not as complex as they seem. At times the thought of how markets work can seem confusing because the prices change and balance themselves on their own when multiple firms are buying and selling similar goods. These are what the business world calls competitive markets or sometimes a perfectly competitive market. With all of the different firms producing similar goods you would think that some firms would go out of business. These types
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MARKET STRUCTURES MARKET STRUCTURE In economics, market structure (also known as market form) describes the state of a market with respect to competition. MAJOR MARKET FORMS The major market forms are: • • • • • Perfect competition, in which the market consists of a very large number of firms producing a homogeneous product. Monopolistic competition, also called competitive market, where there are a large number of independent firms which have a very small proportion of the market share. Oligopoly
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producers and consumers. A market is a place where buyers and sellers meet to exchange money for goods and services. There are four market structures; perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly. Each structure of market operates in their own ways with each with their own characteristics; each structure has its own number and size of the firms, the level of the competition, product differentiation and difficulty of entering new firms into the market. The two similar structures
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.page 2 Market Structures……………………………………………………..page 3-4 Disadvantages of Monopoly Market………………………………….page 4 Advantages of Monopoly Market…………………………………….page 4-5 Conclusion…………………………………………………………….page 5 References…………………………………………………………….page 6 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to identify an antitrust investigation for a firm, to discuss the reason for the investigation, and the impact its impact on the firm. The paper also identifies the practices and power of monopoly and oligopoly
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undertaken in effort to undermine competitive commercial behavior in a given market or line of commerce. The antitrust laws therefore forbid the wrongful acquisition or preservation of monopoly power, the abuse of monopoly power in order to establish a new monopoly, and concerted restraints of trade (i.e., business practices undertaken by two or more firms that improperly stifle or suppress “competition on the merits” in a given market). They also govern proposed mergers and acquisitions that are sufficiently
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Trade Commission Act (1914) and the Cellar-Kefauver Act (1950). The Sherman Act was the first Anti-trust law put in place. It was designed to break up existing monopolies that were already in place. The act stated that it was illegal to contract inhibit trade. It also made it illegal to try and monopolize industries or to have a monopoly of an existing industry. While the intentions were admirable this act was extremely vague and had very little clarity. Both the legal system and businesses were
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Eco-365 Differentiating between Market Structures Simulation Name: Date: Instructor: Characteristic | Perfect Competition | Monopoly | Monopolistic Competition | Oligopoly | Example | Dairy firms, Grocery Store | SKF | Nike | Wyeth | Product/service | Vegetables, milk etc | Bearings | Shoes, sports stuff | Pharmaceuticals, medicines | Entry Barriers | None-Low | High | Medium-High | High | Number of players | Many (over 1000) | Single | Few-Many | Few | Elasticity | >1
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