firms organise inputs/factors of production in order to produce outputs which they can sell
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Perfect competition includes
Many buyers and sellersÂ
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Homogeneous products
not possible to distinguish between products of different firms
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**Subnormal profits**
When market demand is relatively low, presenting firms with a price lower than its ATC
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**Natural monopoly**
When an industry in which one single firm produces all the output due to economies of scale as its average total cost is falling over a very large scale or output
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Perfect resource mobility
all resources used for production can be moved from one firm to another at zero cost
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Perfect information
all producers and consumers have access to all information regarding methods of productionÂ
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Freedom of entry and exist
firms can enter and exit the market at any pointÂ
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**Abnormal / supernormal profit**
When a firm in a perfectly competitive market is selling its output for price that is greater than its average total cost, then the firm earning is making a supernormal profit in the short runÂ
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**Subnormal profits**
When market demand is relatively low, presenting firms with a price lower than its ATC
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**Natural monopoly**
When an industry in which one single firm produces all the output due to economies of scale as its average total cost is falling over a very large scale or outputÂ
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A **monopoly** has the following characteristics:
* Firms can make long run supernormal profits * Non availability of close substitutes of the good on the market * High level of inefficiency * Singular firm that supplies the productÂ