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

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In this unit, you should have learned about:
  • How the kinked-demand curve, derived for an oligopoly operating in an interdependent market, has a more elastic segment for price increases, and a less elastic segment for price decreases.
  • The kinked-demand curve analysis, which illustrates how oligopoly prices tend to be relatively rigid because competing firms DON'T match higher prices but DO match lower prices.
  • How colluding firms maximizing industry profit by equating industry marginal revenue to industry marginal cost.
  • How the output of colluding firm is divided based on the marginal cost of production by each firm.
  • Using game theory to illustrate the interdependent decision making among oligopoly firms, such as the decision to advertise.


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The mental and physical human efforts used in the production of goods and services. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship.

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