krugman's microeconomics for ap* oligopoly in practice margaret ray and david anderson micro:...
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Antitrust Legislation Laws including the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act make cartels, collusion, and certain anti-competitive business practices illegalTRANSCRIPT
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KRUGMAN'SMICROECONOMICS for AP*
Oligopoly in Practice
Margaret Ray and David Anderson
Micro:
Econ:
3066
Module
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What you will learnin this Module:• The legal constraints of antitrust
policy.
• The factors that limit tacit collusion.
• The causes and effects of price wars, product differentiation, price leadership, and nonprice competition.
• The importance of oligopoly in the real world.
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Antitrust Legislation
• Laws including the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act make cartels, collusion, and certain anti-competitive business practices illegal
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Factors Limiting Tacit Collusion
• Large numbers• The more firms in the industry, the less likely tacit collusion will be successful
• Complex products and pricing schemes• It is easier to tacitly agree to keep a price high if the product is simple and there are few ways price can be set.
• Differences in interests• If firms have diverse characteristics and interests, it will be more difficult to establish and maintain tacit agreements.
• Bargaining powers of buyers• If the buyers of a product have bargaining power, or they operate in a competitive retail environment, tacit agreements to keep prices high are unlikely to succeed.
• Sca
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Product Differentiation and Tacit Collusion
• Product differentiation
• Price leadership
• Non-price competition
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How Important is Oligopoly?
• Prevalence in the “real world”
• Difficulty of modeling oligopoly firm behavior