University : La Trobe University

Course Title : MGE1108

Uploaded by : Mark polee

Economics for Business - Answer 1

Differences between characteristics of monopoly, perfect competition, monopolistic competition and oligopoly.

Headings

Perfect competition

Monopoly

Monopolistic competition

oligopoly

Number of firms in the market

There are very large number of buyers and sellers in the market under perfect competition, firms can enter and exit without any artificial restrictions with assumption that every firm has perfect knowledge of market.