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MARKET-CLEARING PRICE: The price that exists when a market is clear of shortage and surplus, or is in equilibrium. Market-clear price is a common, non-technical term for equilibrium price. In a market graph, the market-clearing price is found at the intersection of the demand curve and the supply curve.
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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 4: Analysis
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Profit, Loss, And Supply
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- Similarities between monopolistic competition and other market structures.
- Profit and Loss: Like any firm in any market structure, the monopolistic competitive firm is not guaranteed an economic profit in the short run.
- Short-run Supply: The short-run supply curve for a firm in perfect competition is that portion of the marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve. In contrast, there is no comparable short-run supply curve for monopoly.
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LONG-RUN INDUSTRY SUPPLY CURVE The relation between market price and the quantity supplied by all firms in a perfectly competitive industry after the industry has completed its long-run adjustment. The long-run industry supply curve effectively traces out a series of equilibrium prices and quantities that reflect long-run adjustments of a perfectly competitive industry to demand shocks. This long-run adjustment can take one of three paths, indicating an increasing-cost industry, a decreasing-cost industry, and a constant-cost industry.
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