The Market Structures

Select one factual business example, then respond to the following:
• Distinguish among four market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly in this order.
• Identify your company’s market structure (i.e., perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly), explaining your reasoning.
• Examine whether competitive pressures are present in your company’s industry with high barriers to entry.
• Evaluate how high barriers to entry into the industry may influence your company’s long-run profitability.
• Explain the price elasticity of demand in your company’s market structure and its effect on your company’s pricing decision.
• Investigate whether government regulations encourage or discourage your business relative to its industry.
• Analyze how the role of the government may affect your market structure’s ability to price its products.