Explain what should happen to the demand curve of monopolistically competitive firms as consumers increasingly perceive their products to be more like commodities. What industrial structure does this lead to?
What will be an ideal response?
The demand curves of each monopolistically competitive firm will become more elastic with time and will eventually become perfectly elastic as consumers come to regard the products they produce as homogeneous. This of course leads to a perfectly competitive industry at least in theory.
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