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Oligopoly

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Oligopoly   Where a few large firms have the majority of the market share  
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Concentration rate   Where a few large firms have the majority of the market share  
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Predatory pricing   Setting a price that may bankrupt a competitor firm in order to try and take it over  
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Integration   Combining with other firms  
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Interdependent   Where actions by one firm will have an effect on the sales and revenue of other large firms in the market  
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Price war   Where firms competitively lower prices to increase their market share  
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Reactive behaviour   The action taken by firms in response to a change in behaviour of a competitor  
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Kinked demand curve   A theoretical approach that tries to analyse the reasons for price stability in oligopoly  
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Brand loyalty   A measure indicating the degree to which consumers will purchase a firms’ product rather than a competing firms’ product  
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Discontinuous MR curve   Region over which a change in MC will not lead to a change in the firms’ price and output levels  
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Game theory   An analysis of how games players react to changing circumstances and plan their response  
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Zero sum game   Where a gain by one player is matched by a loss by another player  
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Risk averse   Where one party does not take any action that might promote retaliatory activity by another party  
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Collusion   Where firms cooperate in their pricing and output policies  
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Prisoners’ dilemma   Where prisoners both choose the worst option  
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Nash equilibrium   Where the optimum strategy is to maintain current behaviour  
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Restrictive agreements   Where firms collude to indulge in anti-competitive policy  
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Joint profits   Where firms agree to max shared rather than their individual profits  
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Cartel   A group of firms working together, or colluding  
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Price leader   A firm that establishes the market price that all other firms in the agreement follow  
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Barometric price leadership   A firm whose price changes are accepted as they are skilful at interpreting market conditions  
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Parallel pricing   Where firms charge identical prices  
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Tacit collusion   Where firms have reached an ‘agreement’ as to each other’s behaviour as a result of repeated observations over time  
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Menu costs   The time and money spent by businesses in changing their prices in line with inflation  
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