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imperfect competition

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imperfect competition
n
(Economics) Economics the market situation that exists when one or more of the necessary conditions for perfect competition do not hold
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imperfect competition


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GEM provides for imperfect competition through markups in prices and wages above marginal costs and marginal output; the markups decrease as the substitutability of goods and inputs (that is, competition) increases.
A number of market failures spoil the idyllic picture assumed in efficient market: imperfect competition, externalities, and imperfect information (Paul A.
Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is an expert in the economics of taxation, imperfect competition, and mathematical economics.
 
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