Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 Humanities & CommerceEconomicsNon-Competitive Markets4 Marks
Question
Explain briefly the three features of perfect competition.
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Answer
Large number of buyers and sellers: In perfect competition, there must be large number of buyers and sellers. Each buyer buys a small quantity of the total amount. Each seller is so large that no single buyer or seller can influence the price and affect the market. According to Scitovsky buyers and sellers are price takers in the purely competitive market. Each seller (or firm) sells its products at the price determined by the market. Similarly, each buyer buys the commodity at the price determined by the market.
Homogeneous products: In this case, all sellers produce homogeneous i.e. perfectly identical products. All products are perfectly same in terms of size, shape, taste, colour, ingredients, quality, trade marks, etc. This ensures the existence of single price in the market.
Perfect Knowledge: On the front of both, buyers and sellers, perfect knowledge regarding market and pricing conditions is expected. So, no buyer will pay price higher than market price and no seller will charge lower price than market price.
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