Monopolistic Competition Without Apology
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Monopolistic Competition Without Apology
Date Written: August 2016
Abstract
We provide a selective survey of what has been accomplished under the heading of monopolistic competition in industrial organization and other economic fields. Among other things, we argue that monopolistic competition is a market structure in its own right, which encompasses a much broader set-up than the celebrated constant elasticity of substitution (CES) model. Although oligopolistic and monopolistic competition compete for adherents within the economics profession, we show that this dichotomy is, to a large extend, unwarranted.
Keywords: monopolistic competition, oligopoly, product differentiation, the negligibility hypothesis
JEL Classification: D43, L11, L13
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