imperfect competition
noun[U]
ECONOMICSukusthesituationin which there is little or nocompetitionin amarket, forexample, because there is only onecompanysellingaproductand it cancontrolitspriceandsupply
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An oligopsony is a form ofimperfectcompetition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unlike perfect competition,imperfectcompetitioninvariably means market power is unequally distributed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Later microeconomic theory distinguished between perfect competition andimperfectcompetition, concluding that no system of resource allocation is more efficient than perfect competition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The correct sequence of the market structure from most to least competitive is perfect competition,imperfectcompetition, oligopoly, and pure monopoly.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the real world, markets often experienceimperfectcompetition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hence the fiscal multiplier is less than one, but increasing in the degree ofimperfectcompetitionin the output market.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was a seminal contributor to the macroeconomics ofimperfectcompetition, and has published extensively on labor economics, macroeconomic theory and policy, and the design of welfare systems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The reason for this is thatimperfectcompetitionin the output market tends to reduce the real wage, leading to the household substituting away from consumption towards leisure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This paper was the first to demonstrate in a simple general equilibrium model that the fiscal multiplier could be increasing with the degree ofimperfectcompetitionin the output market.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since at least the 1960s, macroeconomics has been characterized by further integration as to micro-based modeling of sectors, including rationality of players, efficient use of market information, andimperfectcompetition.
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