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प्रश्न
What are selling costs?
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उत्तर १
Selling costs refer to the expenditure incurred by a firm to promote the sale of its product.
उत्तर २
Selling costs are expenses incurred by firms to promote the sale of their product and persuade buyers to prefer their brand over rivals. They include advertising, sales promotion, free samples, publicity, discounts, personal selling, and after-sales service. Under monopolistic competition, where products are similar but differentiated, selling costs play a key role in increasing demand.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The image above shows a departmental store of a market structure.
- Identify the form of market as observed from the above image.
- Discuss the features of this market form with respect to:
- Type of product
- Entry and exit of firms
- Selling cost
How is Perfect competitive market is different from a monopoly market?
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’.
“While shopping for fruits in the local market you see many seller selling fruits”. In this context answer the following:
- What is the type of market referred to?
- State and draw the type of demand curve faced by the market above.
- Differentiate between the market indicated above and monopoly on the basis of:
- No. of sellers
- Market price
- Entry and exit of firms in the market
Following is the feature of perfect competition:
'Homogeneous products' is a characteristic of ______.
Indian Railways is an example of ______.
Match the following and select the correct option.
| Column I | Column II | ||
| (i) | Perfectly elastic demand | (A) | Oligopoly |
| (ii) | Less elastic demand | (B) | Monopolistic competition |
| (iii) | More elastic demand | (C) | Perfect competition |
| (iv) | Indeterminate demand | (D) | Monopoly |
Which of the following statements are true?
- Monopolistically competitive markets have high selling costs.
- Monopolistically competitive markets sell homogeneous goods.
- Any firm can start a business in a monopolistically competitive market.
The monopolist's downward sloping demand curve means that it can increase sales only by changing a lower price.
Imperfect knowledge is a characteristic feature of:
The market structure which is characterised by a single producer of a commodity and when there are not close substitutes for that commodity:
Which of the following is the least competitive market?
Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct alternative:
Assertion (A): Price discrimination is possible under monopoly.
Reason (R): A monopolist can charge different prices in different markets because different sets of consumers - rich and poor - have different price elasticity of demand for the monopolist's product.
What is meant by pure competition?
Give an example of monopsony.
State two important characteristics of monopoly.
Highlight the importance of selling costs in a monopolistically compatible market.
Identify the market form of the following:
Goods sold are homogeneous.
State the market form of the following commodity.
Automobiles
State the market form of the following commodity.
Shampoos
Define monopoly.
Give an example of price discrimination.
Explain the main characteristics of a monopoly.
Monopolistic competition is the perfect blending of monopoly and perfect competition. Explain.
With the help of an example explain the meaning of price discrimination.
To which market is price discrimination relevant?
What do you mean by homogeneous products?
Which market form has the least number of producers?
Identify the market form from the following.
Firm is a price maker.
Identify the market form from the following.
Perfect knowledge
There are a large number of buyers and sellers under a ______ market.
Mention one feature of a monopoly market.
In which market form is there a single seller and no close substitutes for the product?
Which feature best distinguishes monopolistic competition from perfect competition?
In which type of market are firms interdependent and a few large firms dominate?
