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CLOSED ECONOMY: An economy with little or no foreign trade. A country with a closed economy can usually tend to it's problems without worrying about other countries. During the 1950s and 1960s, the good old U. S. of A. had relatively little foreign trade, and was very nearly a closed economy. But that was a unique period in the United States unmatched before or since. In fact, it's very difficult to find a real-life closed economy anywhere in the world today. Because of this, you should take a close look at the entry open economy.
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 4: Analysis
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- By combining their productive capabilities -- that is, their marginal cost curves -- the firms can now reach a profit-maximizing output.
- This is the same output level that would be reach if monopoly controlled the soft-drink market.
- The two firms maximize total industry profit by producing the quantity of output in which the marginal cost of each firm is equal to the marginal revenue for the overall market.
- A Little Cheating: Consider either firm's predicament. Both can increase profit by increasing production.
- However, under the collusion agreement, each firm can do a little better if they increase production -- so long as the other firms maintain the agreement and the higher price.
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KINKED-DEMAND CURVE A demand curve with two distinct segments which have different elasticities that join to form a corner or kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (1) a relatively more elastic segment for price increases and (2) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments is based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction wanting to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the first day of spring or a printer that works with your stockpile of ink cartridges. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. " -- Cato, Roman orator
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TNV
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