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VERIFIED PRINCIPLE: A generally accepted, verified, fundamental law of nature that has been tested against and verified with real world data. A verified principle begins as an hypotheses implied by a theory, which is then compared against real world observations. If the hypothesis is consistently supported by data, it achieves the rank "verified" principle. This should be contrasted with unverifiable axiom.

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Lesson 13: The Firm | Unit 5: The Bigger Picture Page: 22 of 24

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Highlights of four market structures.

  • Perfect Competition
    Perfect competition is a market with a large number or relatively small firms that sell virtually identical products and that have ease of movement into and out of the market.

  • Monopoly
    Monopoly is a market with a single seller of a good with virtually no close substitutes.

  • Monopolistic Competition
    Monopolistic competition is a market with a large number or relatively small firms that sell similar but not identical products and that have ease of movement into and out of the market.

  • Oligopoly
    Oligopoly is a market with a small number or relatively large firms.

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REQUIRED RESERVES

The reserves (vault cash and Federal Reserve deposits) that banks are required by government to keep to back up deposits. The primary use of required reserves is to process daily checkable deposit transactions. The government regulator in charge of setting reserve requires is the Federal Reserve System. Required reserves are usually in the range of 3 to 10 percent for checkable deposits and substantially less (0 percent) for savings deposits. Any legal reserves held by banks over those required to back deposits, termed excess reserves or free reserves, are available for interest-generating loans.

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