How Firm Behave under Perfect Competition in the Short and Long Run.
Title: How Firm Behave under Perfect Competition in the Short and Long Run.
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How Firm Behave under Perfect Competition in the Short and Long Run.
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 788 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Perfect competition is a market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers of essentially the same product. The firms produce a standardized product and there is a free entry and exit of these firms to and from the industry. The firm in a purely competitive market faces a perfectly elastic demand curve at the price determined by equilibrium in the market (Hirschey 379).
The firm in a short-run supply curve is the short-run
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expansion. The long-run supply curve in a constant cost industry is therefore seen to be perfectly elastic, even though the short-run supply curve has a positive slope.
References:
Cohn, Elchanan. "A reexamination of the price effects of a unit commodity tax under perfect competition and monopoly." Public Finance Quarterly, (1996): July, pp. 391-396.
Heath, Will Carrington. "Perfect competition and the transformation of economics." Southern Economic Journal, (1997): January, pp. 825.
Hirschey, Mark. "Managerial Economics." 10th edition, (2003): pp. 281-314, 379.