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aev [14]
3 years ago
15

If the market demand for the product increases, in the short run a purely competitive firm:

Business
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TiliK225 [7]3 years ago
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Answer: D) Will earn higher profits or experience smaller losses as a result of change in the market

Explanation:

Perfect (pure) competition is a market form with very large no. of buyers (firms) & sellers, homogeneous products , uniform price , perfect information about prices .

So , in such case - firms are only 'price takers' from the industry price maker.

Increase in market demand for the industry product will shift the downward sloping market demand curve rightwards & firm's horizontal demand /AR / MR curve (horizontal because of uniform price & perfectly elastic demand) upwards .

This increase in marginal / average revenue will increase the perfect competition firm's profit or reduce its losses .

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