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प्रश्न
Justify the following statement with any two valid arguments. 'In a perfect competition market structure, an individual firm does not have any role in determining price’.
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उत्तर
The statement is indeed accurate and can be justified through understanding the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market. Here are two valid arguments that support this statement:
- Presence of Many Sellers and Buyers: In a perfectly competitive market, there are a large number of sellers and buyers. The presence of many sellers means that no single firm has a significant share of the market. Each firm produces only a tiny fraction of the total industry output.
- Homogeneous Product: Another defining characteristic of perfect competition is that all firms sell a homogeneous or identical product. Because there is no differentiation between the products offered by different firms, consumers do not prefer one firm’s product over another's as long as the price is the same. This lack of differentiation further removes the ability of any single firm to set its own prices.
These factors collectively ensure that individual firms are "price takers" rather than "price makers." This means they must accept the market price as given and adjust other factors within their control, such as costs, to maintain profitability.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Match the following and select the correct option:
| Column I | Column II | ||
| (i) | Perfect competition | (A) | Differentiated Products |
| (ii) | Monopoly | (B) | Few large firms |
| (iii) | Monopolistic Competition | (C) | Single seller |
| (iv) | Oligopoly | (D) | Homogeneous products |
There is no difference between perfect competition and pure competition.
"The price of a product under perfect competition is determined by an individual seller."
Match the following:
| Column I | Column II | ||
| A. | Monopoly | (i) | Availability of close substitutes |
| B. | Oligopoly | (ii) | Absence of close substitutes |
| C. | Perfect competition | (iii) | Few large sellers |
| D. | Monopolistic competition | (iv) | Homogeneous products |
What are selling costs?
To which market is price discrimination relevant?
What do you mean by homogeneous products?
Elaborate the price discrimination feature of monopoly.
There is inverse relation between price and demand for the product of a firm under ______.
In which market form is there a single seller and no close substitutes for the product?
