chpater 6-10 business A2

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what is abnormal profit
profit in excess of normal profit - profit that is needed to keep firm in business
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what is collusion?
collaberating to take a joint action
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what are estrictive practices?
anti-competitive abuse of market power - atrificial barriers to entry
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What is a cartel?
a secret agreement betweena number of produces of a good.
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What is tacit collusion ?
when there is no agreement - firms independantly work.
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what is monopsony power?
exists where major purchaser has market power over smaller suppliers
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what are regulations ?
they are legal and other rules that apply to businesses that come from governments
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Whata re public goods?
they won't be provided by a free market as the benefits are for all.
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What are merit goods?
under-consumed in a free market as epoeple can't afford them
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What are demerit goods?
`they are over-consumed by buyers who overestimate their benefits due to info gaps.
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What is geographical mobility?
ability of workers to move to where jobs are available.
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What is occupational mobility?
being able to move from one type of work to another.
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what is imperfect information
buyer or sellers who dont know everything about the transaction.
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hat is asymmetric info?
occurs if either buyer or sller knows more than the other
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What is an information failure?
distorts resource allocations.
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What are external benefits?
benefits affecting anyone other than the buyer or seller
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what are external costs?
costs that impact on third parties
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what are private costs?
they are paid by the seller
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What are private benefits?
the buyers gain from consumption.
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what are social costs?
the total or private and external costs1
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what are social benefits?
the total private and external gain
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