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LIVING STANDARD: In principle, an economy's ability to produce the goods and services that consumers use to satisfy their wants and needs. In practice, it is the average real gross domestic product per person--usually given the name per capita real GDP.
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 1: Intro
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- Oligopoly as a market structure characterized by a large number of relatively small firms, each of which possesses significant market control.
- That oligopoly markets are noted for practising competition among the few, having significant entry barriers, and are inefficient enough to prompt government intervention.
- That oligopoly lies close to monopoly on the market structure spectrum, but that there is no clear-cut dividing line between oligopoly and monopolistic competition.
- A few of the real world oligopoly markets, including automobile, computers, petroleum, tires, banking, long distance, television, and airlines.
- Two key structural characteristics of oligopoly -- concentration and entry barriers.
- Six key behavioral characteristics of oligopoly -- interdependence, price rigidity, nonprice competition, price leadership, collusion, mergers.
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MARGINAL COST The change in total cost (or total variable cost) resulting from a change in the quantity of output produced by a firm in the short run. Marginal cost (MC) indicates how much total cost changes for a given change in the quantity of output. Because changes in total cost are matched by changes in total variable cost in the short run (total fixed cost is fixed), marginal cost is the change in either total cost or total variable cost. It is found by dividing the change in total cost (or total variable cost) by the change in output. Marginal cost is one of four cost concepts used in short-run production analysis. The other three are average total cost, average fixed cost, and average variable cost.
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