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IMPERFECT COMPETITION [9 records]

Record 1 2015-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A market situation in which there are many sellers. Each seller tries to differentiate its product or its marketing program in some way to suggest that its market offering is distinctive.

OBS

imperfect competition : prevails in an industry or group of industries where the individual sellers are imperfect competitors facing their own nonhorizontal dd curves and thereby having some measure of control over price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Situation d'un marché où une ou toutes les conditions nécessaires pour parler de concurrence parfaite ne sont pas remplies.

OBS

concurrence imparfaite : terme et définition extraits du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduits avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estructura del mercado (Comercio)
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Situación de mercado donde no se cumple alguna o todas las condiciones necesarias para la existencia de competencia perfecta.

OBS

competencia imperfecta; competencia monopolística: términos y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 2 2015-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Econometrics
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
CONT

The firm's demand curve for any factor is given by its curve of marginal-revenue-product for that factor, a curve which declines because of(1) diminishing physical returns and(2) the downward slope of the MR8 curve that usually prevails under imperfect competition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économétrie
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
  • Production (Economics)
CONT

By definition, natural scarcities are such that nothing can be done about them. But under imperfect competition, we encounter in addition so-called "contrived scarcities".... Wherever contrived scarcities exist they distort the optimum pattern of resource use. They may also create high earnings for the people involved. But high earnings do not always follow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Finance
OBS

Working paper written by Claude Lavoie, Marcel Mérette and Mokhtar Souissi, Finance Canada, Ottawa, 2001, 65 pages. This working paper was drafted in English. A summary in both official languages was prepared to make analytic work undertaken by the staff available to a wider readership.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Finances
OBS

Document de travail préparé par Claude Lavoie, Marcel Mérette et Mokhtar Souissi, Finances Canada, Ottawa, 2001, 65 pages. Le document de travail original est publié uniquement en anglais. Un résumé dans les deux langues officielles est disponible afin de rendre le travail d'analyse entrepris par le personnel du Ministère accessible à un lectorat plus vaste.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • Economics
CONT

[Market] failures are often identified in markets that are characterized by at least one of the following : externalities, public goods, indivisibilities, imperfect information, incomplete markets and imperfect competition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Économique
CONT

On observe souvent la présence de déficiences ou d'imperfections dans des marchés qui possèdent au moins l'une des caractéristiques suivantes : externalités, biens publics, indivisibilités, niveaux de connaissance imparfaits, marchés fragmentaires et concurrence imparfaite.

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing Theory
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

(...) imperfect competition of many differentiated producers might result in no one's making a profit if there is "free entry" into the chamberlinian industry in question.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie des prix
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 7 1981-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

The firm's demand curve for any factor is given by its curve of marginal-revenue-product for that factor, a curve which declines because of(1) diminishing physical returns and(2) the downward slope of the MR curve that usually prevails under imperfect competition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 8 1980-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
OBS

We shall study the problem of the maintenance of "effective and workable competition" after Part Three's analysis of prices and cost under perfect and imperfect competition

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)

Spanish

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Record 9 1980-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
OBS

(...) total industry demand DD is so vast relative to efficient scale of any one seller as to permit viable coexistence of numerous perfect-competitors.(What if firms contrive to differentiate their product(...), fragmenting the market and moving DD far to the left, ending up in some kind of Chamberlinian imperfect competition(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)

Spanish

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