Which of the following are assumptions about a perfectly competitive market structure?
There should exist a very large number of firms so that the actions of a single buyer or seller have a negligible effect
Free entry and exit
Outputs produced by all the firms are indistinguishable from each other
All of these
All three are assumptions about perfectly competitive market structure.
Explain the implications of the following features of perfect competition:
(a) large number of buyers and sellers
(b) freedom of entry and exit to firms
One of the assumptions of perfect market is that the firms should be free to start producing the commodity or to stop production, i.e. there should be no barriers of entry or exit
In a perfectly competitive market, the buyers treat products of all the firms as homogeneous. Explain the significance of this feature.