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imperfect competition

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imperfect competition

Competition between firms that supply branded products. Firms therefore compete not just on price, as in perfect competition, but on the type of good they supply. In an oligopoly, the market is dominated by a few firms offering strongly branded products and new firms find it difficult to establish themselves in the industry, whereas in monopolistic competition there are many small firms, branding is weaker, and entry to the industry is easier.



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GEM provides for imperfect competition through markups in prices and wages above marginal costs and marginal output; the markups decrease as the substitutability of goods and inputs (that is, competition) increases.
A number of market failures spoil the idyllic picture assumed in efficient market: imperfect competition, externalities, and imperfect information (Paul A.
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