What comes first to your mind when you hear word monopoly? Is it a monopoly game? Like in the monopoly game A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity, the winner has all the market. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market.
There are 2 types of monopoly:
Natural monopoly - an organization that experiences increasing returns to scale over the relevant range of output and relatively high fixed costs.
Government-granted monopoly - also known as a de jure monopoly - a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants an exclusive privilege to a private individual or company to be the sole provider of a commodity.
Government-granted monopoly - also known as a de jure monopoly - a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants an exclusive privilege to a private individual or company to be the sole provider of a commodity.
- The monopolist will sell a lesser quantity of goods at a higher price than would companies by perfect competition;
- Monopoly pricing creates a deadweight loss referring to potential gains that went neither to the monopolist nor to consumers
- The monopoly setting is less efficient than perfect competition
- Monopolies tend to become less efficient and less innovative over time, becoming complacent
- The theory of contestable markets argues that in some circumstances (private) monopolies are forced to behave as if there were competition because of the risk of losing their monopoly to new entrants. This is likely to happen when a market's barriers to entry are low.