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What is perfect competition? Discuss how firms in perfect competition are price takers?

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Answer: Perfect competition occurs when there are many sellers in market , and there is easy entry and exiting of firms , all sellers have identical products and companies cannot determine prices .

Explanation: Price takers : It is a individual or company that must accept prevailing prices in a market , lacking the market share to influence market price on its own .

All economic participants are considered to be price takers in a market of perfect competition .

A perfectly competitive firm is known as price takers because the pressure of competing firms forces them to accept the prevailing equilibrium price in the market.

If a firm in a perfectly competitive market raises the price of its product by so much as a penny , it will lose all of its sales to competitors .

When a firm decreases the price of commodity , there will be a sharp increase in the demand which will be not met on time .

There is a negative profit in the long run for firms in perfect competition .

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