Contextual examples micro Flashcards

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What is a contextual example for Oligopoly?

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The UK new car market- 4 firm concentration ratio was 40% made up of Ford, Vauxhall, Audi, Volkswagen

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What is a suppliers’ fee contextual example?

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Halford sales went up by 19.4%, they invested £100mill mostly into staff and training- wanted suppliers to provide a discount/ pay a fee to support that investment as the suppliers also benefit from it

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What is a contextual example for perfect competition?

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The uranium market- lots of buyers and seller, homogenous product, perfect knowledge, price takers etc

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What is a gov failure contextual example?

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Venezuela subsidising petrol- high inflation and smuggling petrol into Colombia

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