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Lesson 16: Perfect Competition | Unit 1: Price Taker Page: 3 of 28

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  • Each firm in a perfectly competitive market has no market control and is a price taker.

  • A price taker is a firm that takes, or accepts, the going market price and has no ability to control it or to charge a different price.
  • Because a perfectly competitive firm is such a small part of the overall market, it has no choice but to sell output at the going market price:

    • There is no WAY to sell output ABOVE the going market price.

    • There's no REASON to sell output BELOW the going market price.

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PERFECT COMPETITION, LOSS MINIMIZATION

A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that minimizes economic losses, if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and shutdown (if price is less than average variable cost).

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