1. Monopoly -- 2. Simultaneous quantity competition -- 3. Simultaneous price competition -- 4. Sequential competition -- 5. Regulating imperfectly competitive markets -- 6. R&D incentives -- 7. Mergers and Collusion -- 8. Bundling incentives -- 9. Incomplete information, signaling, and...

The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all...