please explain perfect competition. it's advantages and disadvantages. illustrate with example. thanks
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Perfect competition is a market model in which many small firms sell an identical (homogeneous) product, buyers and sellers have perfect information, entry and exit are free, and each firm is a price taker (it accepts the market price and cannot influence it). Show more…
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