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Please provide in detail the analysis of the following market structures:

Perfect competition
Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly
Monopoly

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This solution analyzes the following market structures: Perfect competition, Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Monopoly.

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Perfect competition
What Does Perfect Competition Mean?
This is a market structure in which the following five criteria are met:

1. All firms sell an identical product.
2. All firms are price takers.
3. All firms have a relatively small market share.
4. Buyers know the nature of the product being sold and the prices
charged by each firm.
5. The industry is characterized by freedom of entry and exit.

Sometimes referred to as "pure competition".

Perfect competition is a theoretical market structure. It is primarily used as a benchmark against which other market structures are compared. The industry that best reflects perfect competition in real life is the agricultural industry.

Monopolistic Competition
What Does Monopolistic Competition Mean?
A type of competition within an industry ...

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