Perfect competition is theoretical. Understand how to identify real-world barriers, and explore how economists view its ...

Learn why perfect competition leads to no long-term economic profits and how it serves as a key benchmark for analyzing ...

In micro-economic textbooks, the main factor assumed to affect the quality of a market is the number of sellers. A single seller, termed a monopolist, is the worst because that seller has maximum ...

The global securities market has been constantly evolving over the years to better serve the needs of traders and investors alike. Traders require liquid markets with minimal transaction and delay ...

It doesn’t matter what country you are in, regulators always seem to be reworking rules to make their markets better. The problem is that, often, different market objectives (and their solutions) ...

Wholesale competition introduces market-driven mechanisms for electricity generation, determining generator dispatch and wholesale pricing through either organized markets or bilateral contracts with ...

Retail competition enables end-users—residential, commercial, and industrial customers—to choose their electricity supplier and related services. This usually fosters competitive pricing, diverse ...