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Market: Definition
Buyer
Seller
Market: Function
Determining price
Providing goods
and service for
the future
Organizing production
Types of Market
Output Market
Commodity
Market
Industrial
Market
Input Market
Consumer
Market
Invisible Market
Over
telephone
lines
Buyer
Seller
Market
Business
Transaction
Via
mails
Online
Output Market
Competition
Perfectly
competitive
Perfectly
uncompetitive
Time
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Annually
Form
Abstract
Concrete
Market
Area
Local
Regional
National
Internati
onal
Input Market
Owner of
production
factors
Company
Consumer Market
Consumers
interact
with sellers
to buy
goods and
services
Market
Sellers can
use other
sales media
Sellers can
be retailers
Industrial Market
Industrial Market
Business
organizations sell to
other businesses
These other
businesses use what
theyve bought to
make new products
Commodity Market
Functions
Benefits
For sellers:
Easier to market or
to sell
Gathering
info
For buyers:
Easier to get or to
buy
Managing
trade
Trading
place
For government:
Providing foreign
exchange
Commodities
Market often have
Commodities
themselves often
their centers in
developed countries
(UK, USA, Netherlands).
Market: Structure
The number of firms in the industry
The nature of the product produced
The degree of monopoly power of each firm has
The degree to which the firm can influence price
Firms behavior-pricing strategies, non-price
competition, output levels
Market: Monopoly
Monopoly
by law
One
seller
A lot of
buyers
No
substitution
goods
High
barrier
to
entry
Monopoly
by license
Monopoly
by nature
Market: Oligopoly
Few
sellers
Capital
intensive
Medium
barrier
to entry
Policy
of price
Standar
dized
product
Oligopoly
with
cooperation
Oligopoly
without
cooperation
Market: Monophony
One buyer
No
bargaining
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