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ANDEAN COMMUNITY: The Andean Community (CAN) is a subregional organization endowed with an international legal status, which is made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The main objectives of the Andean Community are to promote the balanced and harmonious development of the member countries under equitable conditions, to boost their growth through integration and economic and social cooperation and to enhance participation in the regional integration process with a view to the progressive formation of a Latin American common market. The Andean Community started operating on August 1, 1997 with a General Secretariat, whose headquarters are in Lima (Peru), as its executive body.

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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 1: Intro Page: 5 of 22

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In this unit, you should have learned about:
  • Monopolistic competition as a market structure with a large number of relatively small firms that sell similar but slightly different products.
  • The four characteristics of monopolistic competition -- large number of small firms, similar but not identical products, relatively good resource mobility, and relatively complete knowledge.
  • Why monopolistic competition is consider the imperfect real world's best attempt to achieve perfect competition.
  • Monopolistic competition as a mix of perfect competition (the "competition") and monopoly (the "monopolistic").
  • The important role that product differentiation plays in monopolistic competition, and how it gives each firm "a little bit of a monopoly."
  • How product differentiation can be achieved through physical differences, perceived differences, and support services.


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U-SHAPED COST CURVES

The family of short-run cost curves consisting of average total cost, average variable cost, and marginal cost, all of which have U-shapes. Each is U-shaped because it begins with relatively high but falling cost for small quantities of output, reaches a minimum value, then has rising cost at large quantities of output. Although the average fixed cost curve is not U-shaped, it is occasionally included with the other three just for sake of completeness.

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