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What is Market Structure?
Market structure concerns how competitive is the industry. That is, it concerns the following factors:
- Market power of each firm (suppliers and buyers);
- Substitute products;
- Barriers to entry;
- Competitive rivalry
It also concerns the number of other firms in the market.
Relate Topics
- Theory of the Firm
- Capital Formation
- Rent Seeking
- Structure Conduct Performance Model
- Integration
- Co-Insurance Effect
- Conglomerates
- Cost vs Profit Center
- Accelerator Theory
- Market Structure
- Fixed Cost vs Variable Cost
- Actual vs Implicit Costs
- Explicit Costs
- True Cost Economics
- Accounting Profit
- Economic Profit
- What are Factors of Production?
- Factor Income
- Production Function
- Fixed and Variable Inputs
- Short-Run and Long-Run Production
- Short Run
- Total Product
- Marginal Product
- Value of Marginal Product
- Law of Marginal Diminishing Product
- Production Function
- Production Possibilities Frontier
- Capital
- Labor Theory of Value
- How the Production Function Estimates Inputs
- Factor Payment
- Economic Rent
- Cost Function
- Incremental Cost
- Marginal Input Cost
- Fixed and Variable Costs
- Diminishing Marginal Productivity
- Costs Relate to Diminishing Marginal Productivity
- Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
- Average Total Cost
- Average Variable Cost
- Marginal Cost
- Average Profit or Profit Margin
- Accounting Profit
- Economic Profit
- Normal Profit
- Short and Long-Run Production
- Cost Curves
- Long-Run Average Cost (LRAC)
- Production Technologies
- Economies of Scope
- Economies of Scale
- Diseconomies of Scale
- Minimum Efficient Scale
- Increasing, Constant, and Decreasing Returns to Scale
- Shape of the Average Long-Run and Short-Run Cost Curves
- Returns to Scale
- Diseconomies of Scale
- Long-Run Average Cost Curve Affect Industry Competitors
- Technology Shifts the Long-Run Average Cost Curve
- Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns