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FIXED STRUCTURES: One of three types of capital goods purchased with investment expenditures. Fixed structures include buildings, factories, and other capital goods that are essentially fixed to the ground. The other types of capital are equipment and inventories.
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Lesson 22: Factor Supply | Unit 5: Taking Stock
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- Let's take stock of what factor supply is:
- First, factor supply is one side of the factor market, the other being factor demand.
- Second, that each of the four factors of production have different considerations for factor supply.
- Third, that factor markets have differing degrees of market control on the buying side, which affects the factor cost incurred by the buyers.
- Fourth, that while factor supply is the relation between factor quantity and factor price, other factor supply determinants are also important.
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OLIGOPSONY A market characterized by a small number of large buyers controlling the buying-side of a market. Oligopsony is the buying-side equivalent of a selling-side oligopoly. Much as a oligopoly is a market dominated by a few large sellers, oligopsony is a market dominated by a few large buyers. While oligopsony could be analyzed for any type of market it tends to be most relevant for factor markets in which a handful of firms control the buying of a factor. Two related buying side market structures are monopsony and monopsonistic competition.
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Woodrow Wilson's portrait adorned the $100,000 bill that was removed from circulation in 1929. Woodrow Wilson was removed from circulation in 1924.
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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity." -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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CRRA Constant Relative Risk Aversion
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