AP MicroeconomicsMarket Structures
Price Taker
A price taker is a firm that must accept the market price as given and cannot influence it through its own output decisions.
This occurs in perfectly competitive markets where each firm's output is too small relative to the market to affect price. The firm's demand curve is horizontal at the market price.
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