Act V · Different Stages · Module 13

The Farmers Market

Perfect competition

37 slides · Hubbard & O'Brien, chapter 12.

The story

Where this fits in Marginal Falls

Many stalls sell comparable products, and no single stall controls the market price. The farmers market returns to output and profit decisions in a competitive setting and examines how entry and exit change the longer-run outcome.

A question to take into class

Why does a competitive stall take the market price as given even though it chooses its own output?

Lecture slides

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From the slides to the classroom

Activities used in this module

Perfect competition

Price Posting Market

Post storefront prices over successive rounds and observe competitive pressure.

Open activity

Activities open at marginalfalls.com. Students join using the room code supplied by their instructor.