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Explore how imperfect markets differ from perfect competition, their characteristics, and their impact on economics, ...

The following is an excerpt from Phil Mackintosh and Michael Normyle's paper titled: How Exchanges Compete: An Economic Analysis of Platform Competition. The full paper can be read here. Exchanges ...

Imperfect competition is a competitive market situation where there are many sellers, but they are selling heterogeneous (dissimilar) goods.