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Chapter 5 Perfectly competitive markets
As we have seen, perfectly competitive markets are defined by the following features:
many buyers and sellers;
no barriers to entry or exit;
sellers’ products are identical;
no buyers or sellers have market power.
Examples of perfectly competitive markets.
We begin by applying the firm’s profit maximization model to the context of perfect competition.
