How does the demand curve for an oligopoly firm differ from the demand curves for firms in competitive market structures?
What will be an ideal response?
The demand curve facing a perfectly competitive firm is horizontal at the prevailing market price. In other words, the perfect competitor does not influence market price; rather it takes the price as given. A firm in an oligopolistic industry can influence market price and therefore faces a downward-sloping demand curve. But not much else can be said about its demand curve because firms in oligopolistic industries are interdependent, that is, each firm reacts to its rivals' behaviors, or at least, to what it thinks its rivals will do. Consequently, it is difficult to determine an individual oligopolist's demand curve.
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A) the economy could not operate at any level of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) less than full capacity. B) capitalism was one economic system that guaranteed full employment. C) wages and prices in the short run were flexible. D) there was no guarantee that a capitalist economy would reach a full employment equilibrium.
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