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Chapter 16
1.
© 2011 Cengage
South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
2.
BETWEEN MONOPOLY AND PERFECT
COMPETITION • Imperfect competition refers to those market structures that fall between perfect competition and pure monopoly. • Imperfect competition includes industries in which firms have competitors but do not face so much competition that they are price takers. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
3.
BETWEEN MONOPOLY AND PERFECT
COMPETITION • Types of Imperfectly Competitive Markets – Oligopoly • Only a few sellers, each offering a similar or identical product to the others. – Monopolistic Competition • Many firms selling products that are similar but not identical. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
4.
Figure 1 The
Four Types of Market Structure Number of Firms? Many firms Type of Products? One Few Differentiated Identical firm firms products products Monopolistic Perfect Monopoly Oligopoly Competition Competition (Chapter 15) (Chapter 16) (Chapter 17) (Chapter 14) • Tap water • Cars • Tooth paste, soap, hair shampoo • Rubber • Cable TV • Cigarettes • • Milk Bread © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
5.
MARKETS WITH ONLY
A FEW SELLERS • Because of the few sellers, the key feature of oligopoly is the tension between cooperation and self-interest. • Characteristics of an Oligopoly Market – Few sellers offering similar or identical products – Interdependent firms – Best off cooperating and acting like a monopolist by producing a small quantity of output and charging a price above marginal cost © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
6.
A Duopoly Example •
A duopoly is an oligopoly with only two members. It is the simplest type of oligopoly. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
7.
Table 2 The
Demand Schedule for Water © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
8.
A Duopoly Example •
Price and Quantity Supplied • The price of water in a perfectly competitive market would be driven to where the marginal cost is zero: • P = MC = RM0 • Q = 120 litres • The price and quantity in a monopoly market would be where total profit is maximized: • P = RM60 • Q = 60 litres © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
9.
A Duopoly Example •
Price and Quantity Supplied • The socially efficient quantity of water is 120 litres, but a monopolist would produce only 60 litres of water. • So what outcome then could be expected from duopolists? © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
10.
The Market for
Water Cost In a competitive market, quantity RM120 would equal 120 and P = MC = RM0. A monopoly would produce 60 gallons and charge RM60. Note that P > MC. RM60 Total industry output with a duopoly will Demand probably exceed 60, but be less than 120. MC is constant and = RM0. 0 60 120 Quantity of Output Marginal Revenue © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
11.
Competition, Monopolies, and
Cartels • The duopolists may agree on a monopoly outcome. • Collusion • An agreement among firms in a market about quantities to produce or prices to charge. • Cartel • A group of firms acting in unison. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
12.
Competition, Monopolies, and
Cartels • Although oligopolists would like to form cartels and earn monopoly profits, often that is not possible. Antitrust laws prohibit explicit agreements among oligopolists as a matter of public policy. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
13.
The Equilibrium for
an Oligopoly • A Nash equilibrium is a situation in which economic actors interacting with one another each choose their best strategy given the strategies that all the others have chosen. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
14.
The Equilibrium for
an Oligopoly • When firms in an oligopoly individually choose production to maximize profit, they produce quantity of output greater than the level produced by monopoly and less than the level produced by competition. • The oligopoly price is less than the monopoly price but greater than the competitive price (which equals marginal cost). © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
15.
Equilibrium for an
Oligopoly • Summary • Possible outcome if oligopoly firms pursue their own self-interests: • Joint output is greater than the monopoly quantity but less than the competitive industry quantity. • Market prices are lower than monopoly price but greater than competitive price. • Total profits are less than the monopoly profit. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
16.
How the Size
of an Oligopoly Affects the Market Outcome • How increasing the number of sellers affects the price and quantity: • The output effect: Because price is above marginal cost, selling more at the going price raises profits. • The price effect: Raising production will increase the amount sold, which will lower the price and the profit per unit on all units sold. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
17.
How the Size
of an Oligopoly Affects the Market Outcome • As the number of sellers in an oligopoly grows larger, an oligopolistic market looks more and more like a competitive market. • The price approaches marginal cost, and the quantity produced approaches the socially efficient level. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
18.
GAME THEORY AND
THE ECONOMICS OF COOPERATION • Game theory is the study of how people behave in strategic situations. • Strategic decisions are those in which each person, in deciding what actions to take, must consider how others might respond to that action. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
19.
GAME THEORY AND
THE ECONOMICS OF COOPERATION • Because the number of firms in an oligopolistic market is small, each firm must act strategically. • Each firm knows that its profit depends not only on how much it produces but also on how much the other firms produce. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
20.
The Prisoners’ Dilemma •
The prisoners’ dilemma provides insight into the difficulty in maintaining cooperation. • Often people (firms) fail to cooperate with one another even when cooperation would make them better off. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
21.
The Prisoners’ Dilemma •
The prisoners’ dilemma is a particular “game” between two captured prisoners that illustrates why cooperation is difficult to maintain even when it is mutually beneficial. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
22.
Figure 2 The
Prisoners’ Dilemma Bonnie’ s Decision Confess Remain Silent Bonnie gets 8 years Bonnie gets 20 years Confess Clyde’s Clyde gets 8 years Clyde goes free Decision Bonnie goes free Bonnie gets 1 year Remain Silent Clyde gets 20 years Clyde gets 1 year © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
23.
Oligopolies as a
Prisoners’ Dilemma • The dominant strategy is the best strategy for a player to follow regardless of the strategies chosen by the other players. • Cooperation is difficult to maintain, because cooperation is not in the best interest of the individual player. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
24.
Figure 3 Ah
Chun and Ah Seng’s Oligopoly Game Ah Chun’s Decision High Production: 40 Gal. Low Production: 30 gal. Ah Chun gets RM1,600 Jack gets $1,500 profit profit High Production 40 gal. Ah Seng’s Ah Seng gets RM1,600 Jill gets $2,000 profit Decision profit Jack gets $2,000 profit Jack gets $1,800 profit Low Production 30 gal. Jill gets $1,500 profit Jill gets $1,800 profit © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
25.
Oligopolies as a
Prisoners’ Dilemma • Self-interest makes it difficult for the oligopoly to maintain a cooperative outcome with low production, high prices, and monopoly profits. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
26.
Figure 4 An
Arms-Race Game Decision of the United States (U.S.) Arm Disarm U.S. at risk U.S. at risk and weak Arm Decision USSR at risk USSR safe and powerful of the Soviet Union U.S. safe and powerful U.S. safe (USSR) Disarm USSR at risk and weak USSR safe © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
27.
Figure 5 A
Common-Resource Game Exxon’s Decision Drill Two Wells Drill One Well Exxon gets RM4 Exxon gets RM3 million profit million profit Drill Two Wells Shell gets RM4 Shell gets million profit RM6 profit million Shell’s Decision Exxon gets RM6 Exxon gets RM5 million profit million profit Drill One Well Shell gets RM3 Shell gets RM5 million profit million profit © 20112007 Thomson South-Western © Cengage South-Western
28.
Why People Sometimes
Cooperate • Firms that care about future profits will cooperate in repeated games rather than cheating in a single game to achieve a one-time gain. © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
29.
PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD OLIGOPOLIES •
Cooperation among oligopolists is undesirable from the standpoint of society as a whole because it leads to production that is too low and prices that are too high. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
30.
Restraint of Trade
and the Antitrust Laws • Antitrust laws make it illegal to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize a market. • Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 • Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
31.
Controversies over Antitrust
Policy • Antitrust policies sometimes may not allow business practices that have potentially positive effects: • Resale price maintenance • Predatory pricing • Tying © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
32.
Controversies over Antitrust
Policy • Resale Price Maintenance (or fair trade) • occurs when suppliers (like wholesalers) require retailers to charge a specific amount • Predatory Pricing • occurs when a large firm begins to cut the price of its product(s) with the intent of driving its competitor(s) out of the market • Tying • when a firm offers two (or more) of its products together at a single price, rather than separately © 2011 Cengage South-Western © 2007 Thomson South-Western
33.
Summary • Oligopolists maximize
their total profits by forming a cartel and acting like a monopolist. • If oligopolists make decisions about production levels individually, the result is a greater quantity and a lower price than under the monopoly outcome. © 2011Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
34.
Summary • The prisoners’
dilemma shows that self- interest can prevent people from maintaining cooperation, even when cooperation is in their mutual self-interest. • The logic of the prisoners’ dilemma applies in many situations, including oligopolies. © 2011 Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
35.
Summary • Policymakers use
the antitrust laws to prevent oligopolies from engaging in behavior that reduces competition. © 2011 Thomson South-Western © 2007 Cengage South-Western
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