English

What do you mean by homogeneous products? - Economic Applications

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

What do you mean by homogeneous products?

Answer in Brief

Solution

Homogeneous products refer to those products which are identical in all respects like quality, colour, size, design, brand name etc. The buyer does not distinguish the output of one firm from that of the other. 

shaalaa.com
Forms of Market Structure
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 5: Nature and Structure of Markets - QUESTION BANK [Page 140]

APPEARS IN

Goyal Brothers Prakashan Economic Application [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 5 Nature and Structure of Markets
QUESTION BANK | Q 7. i | Page 140
Goyal Brothers Prakashan Economics [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 5 Meaning and Types of Markets
QUESTION BANK | Q 7. (i) | Page 117

RELATED QUESTIONS

In which type of market price discrimination is practiced? Explain with an example.


Selling costs are absent in perfect competition market.


What is the shape of the demand curve faced by any monopoly firm? Support your answer with a diagram.


“While shopping for fruits in the local market you see many seller selling fruits”. In this context answer the following:

  1. What is the type of market referred to?
  2. State and draw the type of demand curve faced by the market above.
  3. Differentiate between the market indicated above and monopoly on the basis of:
    1. No. of sellers
    2. Market price
    3. Entry and exit of firms in the market

Following is not the feature of perfect competition:


Match the following and select the correct option: 

  Column I   Column II
(i) Perfect competition (A) Differentiated Products
(ii) Monopoly (B) Few large firms
(iii) Monopolistic Competition (C) Single seller
(iv) Oligopoly (D) Homogeneous products

The market structure which is characterised by a single producer of a commodity and when there are not close substitutes for that commodity:


Mention two features of monopoly.


State two important characteristics of monopoly.


What are selling costs?


Give an example of monopoly.


Discuss any four differences between monopoly and monopolistic competition.


Which type of market structure is the following? Give reason.

Jeans


Which type of market structure is the following? Give reason.

Ball-pen


To which market form are homogeneous products relevant? 


What is the effect on price when a monopoly firm tries to sell more?


What does perfectly elastic demand curve faced by a competitive firm indicate?


Identify the market form from the following.

Price discrimination


There are a large number of buyers and sellers under a ______ market.


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×