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Economics
12th Grade
11/18/2009

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homogeneous product
Definition
Products are the same or similar; easy substituted
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Heterogeneous products
Definition
differentiated product; real or perceived differences exist
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Price Leadership
Definition
Action taken by industry leader to raise the price; other large firms follow suit
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Price taker
Definition
a firm that takes the market price determined by supply and demand
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price setter
Definition
a firm that has control over the price of the product is sells; no competition
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Anti-trust legislation
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Bills and acts designed to monitor and regulate big business, prevent monopolies
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Sole Proprietership
Definition
owned and controlled by one person
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Partnership
Definition
Owned and controlled by two or more people
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Corporation
Definition
Owned by the stockholders and treated by law as an individual
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Monopoly
Definition
Is a market structure that is unique and only has one of it's kind so it has no competition and it establishes its own prices
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