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1 Market Structure Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Professor Course Name and Number Date
2 Market Structure PART A FIRM # 1 FIRM # 2 FIRM # 3 FIRM #4 firm name John Deere Chick-Fil-A Facebook Duke Energy number of firms competing with each other? More than 20 competitors Less than 5 firms Not less than 20 competing companies Less than 5 firms nature of the product? Agricultural inputs Beverage and combo meals Social media content and entertainment Energy and power entry into the market? Introducing and implementing the use of quality agricultural inputs such as plow for scouring Started as a mini- restaurant Make the world a better place by facilitating communication and entertainment An icon for sufficient power for better living availability of information to market participants? Readily available Information availability is minimum Readily available Information availability is minimum firm’s control Has no pricing Has an effective Has no price Has an
3 over pricing control price control control effective price control type of market structure Oligopolistic market structure The market structure is monopolistic Operates in a perfect competition market structure Market structure is monopolistic PART B The companies that have been presented in the table have different target markets and industries of operation. John Deere and Facebook have more competitors since the products they provide within the target market have substitutes that are provided by other companies thus making it difficult to have total dominance over the target market and industry of operation thus having oligopolistic and perfect competition market structures respectively (Trav, 2020). According to Trav (2020), the nature of the products provided by the companies vary thus making it easy to understand why they occupy different market structures reflected by the reason for entry into the target market and industry of operation. Information necessary for market participants is readily available for Facebook and John Deere since their products have a wide range of uses compared to market participants for Chick-Fil-A and Duke Energy since their products have specific target customers especially now that they have substitutes produced by other companies in respective industries of operation and target market (Bons, 2020). Chick-Fil-A and Duke Energy have a monopolistic market structure since the products they provide are unique despite having a cross- sectional number of substitutes within their industries of operation. John Deere and Facebook lack an effective pricing control mechanism and approaches since they occupy different market
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4 structures with varying outline of rules regarding pricing for the products they provide (Bons, 2020). References Bons, K. (2020). Market structure and the implementation of pricing control alongside mechanisms. Trav, F. (2020). Market structures and their contribution to competitive economies.