More will be demanded at lower prices and less at higher prices; an inverse relationship between price and quantity
What is Law of Demand?
Market structure defined by very large numbers of buyers/sellers, identical products, and freedom of entry/exit.
What is pure competition?
The joining of two firms involved in different stages of manufacturing and marketing a product.
What is a vertical merger?
Products that increase the use of other products.
What are complements?
Market structure in which a few large sellers dominate and have the ability to affect prices in the industry.
What is an oligopoly?
The joining of firms that make the same product.
What is horizontal merger?
The amount of a product that would be produced, grown, or acquired and offered for sale at all possible prices that could prevail in the market.
What is supply?
A market structure in which a firm has a monopoly because of its location or the small size of the market.
What is a geographic monopoly?
A government payment that supports a business or market and causes supply to increase.
What is a subsidy?
The two types of stock.
What are dividend differences and decision-making differences?
A state of equality or balance between market demand and supply.
What is equilibrium?
The practice of charging different customers different prices for the same product. (usually illegal)
What is price discrimination?
When quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied.
What is a shortage?
When demand is extremely responsive to price change.
What is elastic demand?
The exclusive right of authors or artists to publish, sell, or reproduce their work for their lifetime plus 70 years.
What is copyright?
The minimum legal price that a seller may charge.
What is a price floor?