AP MicroeconomicsMarket Structures
Perfect Competition
Perfect competition is a market structure with many small firms, identical products, free entry and exit, and perfect information.
Firms in perfect competition are price takers and face a perfectly elastic demand curve. In the long run, economic profit is zero due to free entry and exit, leading to allocative and productive efficiency.
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