Explanation
Perfect competition is a type of market where there are large number of buyers and sellers who deals in homogeneous product due to which no individual unit is able to influence the price of the product and the firms have to quote the price that prevails in the market.
Since the price of the product remains the same the Total Revenue curve is a straight line from the origin with a constant slope.
Perfect competition is a type of market where there are huge number of buyers and sellers who deals in the same type of product due to which no individual unit is able to influence the price of the product and the seller have to quote the price that prevails in the market which usually remains uniform due to such large involvement of the masses. Therefore, the marginal revenue curve is a straight line.
Perfect competition is a type of market where there are huge number of buyers and sellers who deals in the same type of product due to which no individual unit is able to influence the price of the product. Even the entry and exit of the firms from the market is allowed at every point of time. Therefore, there is no distinction in single firm and an industry in perfect competition.
Perfect competition is a type of market where there are huge number of buyers and sellers who deals in the same type of product due to which no individual unit is able to influence the price of the product.
Under perfect competition, there is freedom of entry and exit of firms. Therefore, when there is super-normal profits or losses the firms in the market enter and exit respectively due to which the firms in the industry only earn normal profits in the long run.
So in monopolistic competition, the industry earns only normal profits in the long run due to no barriers for entry and exit of the firms.
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