When the number of firms in a market is small,
Select one:
a. firms generally organise as a cartel
b. firms are less concerned about the behaviour of competitors, since there is always sufficient demand to keep all firms happy
c. firms are guaranteed a positive economic profit
d. firms must generally consider how competing firms respond to their decisions
1. D with a few firms in the market,the market behaves like a Oligopoly market. Here their exists barriers to entry fir new firms which can be both natural and artificial barriers. The characteristic of this market is that all the firms here are interdependent which means they cannot act independently of each other. They have to consider how competing firms will respond to their decisions,while taking them.This is because there are small number of firms with ecah firm having considerable influence over market.
Firms also generally resort to forming cartel but many times that is strictly prohibited by the government by various laws.
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