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Oligopoly

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Oligopoly   show
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show no one firm has a monopoly, but producers can affect market prices  
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show complicated to do bc it's not a single firm considering its cost and pricing in a vaccum (like perfectly competitive firms and monopolies)  
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show actions taken by other large firms  
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show sum of the squares of each firm's share of market sales Ex: if there are 3 firms with 60%, 25%, and 15% market share each: HHI=60^2+25^2+15^2=4,450 -indicates oligopoly  
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show strongly competitive market  
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HHI of 1,000 to 1,800 indicates   show
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show oligopoly  
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If HHI is above 1,000   show
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Collusion   show
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show strongest form of collusion/ an agreement by several producers to restrict output in order to increase their joint profits  
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show limits production for each member nation to raise oil prices and profits  
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Noncooperative behavior   show
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Game Theory   show
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Duopoly   show
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Prisoner's dilemma   show
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show strategy that is a player's best action regardless of the action taken by the other player/depending on the payoffs a player may or may not have a dominant strategy  
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Nash equilibrium (also known as noncooperative equilibrium)   show
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show dominant strategy  
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show strategy of playing cooperatively at first, then doing whatever the other player did in the previous period  
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show efforts undertaken by the government to prevent oligopolistic industries from becoming or behaving like monopolies  
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show unspoken agreements/ limited by a number of factors including: -less concentration -complex products and pricing scheme -differences in interests - bargaining power of buyers  
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show when collusion breaks down and prices collapse there is a price war  
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Product differentiation   show
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Nonprice competition   show
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show one firm sets its price first, and other firms then follow  
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