Explain the underlying assumptions of the price leadership model. What conclusions can be made about the price charged and the output produced in an industry that has a dominant price leader?
What will be an ideal response?
The assumptions are: the industry is made up of one large firm and a number of smaller, competitive firms; the dominant firm maximizes profit subject to the constraint of market demand and subject to the behavior of smaller, competitive firms; and the dominant firm allows the smaller firms to sell all they want to at the price that the leader has set. The price charged and the output produced is between the price set by the perfectly competitive and the monopoly solutions.
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