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COMMERCIAL PAPER: Short-term negotiable financial instruments, or promissory notes, sold by corporations to raise working capital. The maturity length of commercial paper is less than a year, often 30, 60 or 90 days. The corporations who issue commercial paper are usually the largest, most stable, and most profitable businesses in the country.

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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 4: Analysis Page: 17 of 24

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  • Collusion, of course, occurs when two or more firms in an oligopoly agree to set prices, control production, and otherwise act like a monopoly.

  • To create a monopoly, two firms have to combine their two operations.

  • The key consideration is both firms will seek to produce output using the firm with the lowest marginal cost.

  • From a graphical standpoint, this is accomplished by horizontally summing the two marginal cost curves.


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BUSINESS CYCLE PHASES

The recurring, but irregular, pattern of business cycles can be divided into two basic phases--expansion and contraction. An expansion is a period of increasing economic activity and a contraction is a period of declining economic activity. These two phases are marked by two transitions. The transition from expansion to contraction is termed a peak and the transition from contraction to expansion is termed a trough. The early portion of an expansion is often referred to as a recovery.

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