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Monopolistic competition

Monopolistic competition is a market structure where many firms exist, but each firm has a small degree of market power as they produce differentiated products.

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The syllabus topics that use this term.

  • 2.11Game Theory in Oligopoly
  • 2.11Monopolistic Competition
  • 2.11Monopoly

Taught in Market Failure: Market Power

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