OLIGOPOLY AND MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION Up to now‚ we have covered two extreme types of markets. We covered perfect competition with the highest degree of competition‚ then we covered monopoly with the lowest degree of competition. Now‚ we will cover oligopoly and monopolistic competition. These two market types are in between two extremes: they show some features of competition and some features of monopoly. Oligopoly Definition: Oligopoly is a market structure in which there are a few sellers
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Introduction to the Bertrand Model The Bertrand model was developed by Joseph Bertrand to challenge Cournot’s work on non-cooperative oligopolies. Cournot’s model dealt with an N number of firms who will choose a specific quantity of output where price is a known decreasing function of total output. (About.com 2011) However‚ Bertrand’s argument was with regard to the setting of prices. He said the only factors influencing the price in an oligopolistic market were the firms themselves and therefore
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War What is it good for? ‘If we don’t end war‚ war will end us.’ – H.G Wells ‘The father of science fiction’. People have differing opinions about war. Some people believe you can begin and end one without any unnecessary bloodshed‚ however there is not enough evidence to suggest this and I would go as far to say that the inverse is true. In the 10‚000 years settled humans have been on the planet‚ war has always occurred. We cannot officially know when it started and no one will know when it
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Lectures 1 and 2 Recap – Expected Utility and Basic Game Theory Chris Wilson Handout 1 Topic 1: Recap – Expected Utility and Basic Game Theory 1 Expected Utility and Attitudes to Risk 2 Normal Form Games 2a Dominant Strategies 2b Nash Equilibrium 2c Continuous Strategy Spaces - Cournot 3 Extensive Form Games 3a Backward Induction and Subgame Perfection 2 You will be familiar with some of the content in this topic. However‚ from past experience‚ most students will find
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Week 2: Learning Team “A” Deliverable ECO/561 February 12‚ 2012 : This week our objectives include how to determine pricing strategy to meet organizational goals‚ ways to implement non barriers to entry based on market structure‚ ways to increase product differentiation based on market structure‚ and ways to reduce costs for an organization. We will discuss three categories from the objectives‚ which includes monopoly‚ games‚ and strategies. Each topic includes the topic
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“Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind‚ but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.” - John Forbes Nash Jr. Those wise words that John Nash spoke a few years back still resonate today. The story starts at Princeton University‚ where John Nash is the recipient of a scholarship. (The Carnegie Prize for mathematics.) Then we are introduced to his roommate Charles‚ a literature student‚ he greets John and they instantly hit it off and become friends. John also meets an interesting
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Pursuing success can feel like shooting in a landscape of moving targets: Every time you hit one‚ five more pop up from another direction. We are under constant pressure to do more‚ get more‚ be more. But is that really what success is all about? Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson interviewed and surveyed hundreds of professionals to study the assumptions behind the idea of success. They then built a practical framework for a new way of thinking about success—a way that leads to personal and professional
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best outcome for the players jointly; both players would prefer that neither of them confess. For this reason‚ the Prisoners dilemma is the paradigmatic example of self-interested‚ rational behaviour not leading to a socially optimal result. In a Nash equilibrium‚ each player’s
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Introductory Microeconomics 2008 Exam Solutions Section A 1. C |Hours of tutoring per week|Total Opportunity cost |Marginal Cost |Wage Payment (Marginal | | | | |Benefit) | |0 |0 | | | |1 |$20 |$20 |$50
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FINA0104 Management of Commercial Banks Prof. Keith K. P. Wong Fall 2013 • Course Objective: The focus of this course is on the economics of commercial banks. This course seeks to enhance your understanding of why commercial banks exist and what economic roles they play‚ the risks faced by banks in the lending process‚ off-balance sheet banking‚ deposit insurance‚ bank regulation‚ and risk management. 1 The economics of financial contracting in the banking industry---from deposit
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