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What does perfect competition look like?

What does perfect competition look like?

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A perfectly competitive market has following characteristics.

(1) There are many buyers and many sellers in the market.

(2) Each seller produces and sells identical goods, so buyers have many substitutes.

(3) Each sellers is too small to influence the market, so they accept market-determined price as their own price. As a result, firm's demand curve is horizontal at market price and demand is perfectly elastic. Price equals marginal revenue.

(4) There is free entry and exit.

(5) Information is costless, and every buyer and seller has complete information.

(6) Each firm equates market price with its marginal cost. Firms can make economic profit of loss in short run, but in long run all firms earn zero economic profit.

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