What is oligopoly? How does oligopoly differ from the other kinds of market structure?

What will be an ideal response?

Oligopoly is an industry characterized by a small number of firms. The firms are interdependent, and they recognize that they are interdependent. This leads to strategic dependence, which means that firms must recognize that their actions will affect the other firms, and they must take into account the actions of the other firms.

Economics

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If the inputs to a production process are perfect substitutes and the marginal rate of technical substitution is equal to the ratio of the prices of the two inputs, the firm can choose from a virtually infinite array of combinations of the two inputs

to minimize the costs of producing a given level of output. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Economics

The fact that an economy always returns to the natural rate level of output is known as

A) the excess demand hypothesis. B) the price-adjustment mechanism. C) the self-correcting mechanism. D) the natural rate of unemployment.

Economics