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A: With various ways high monopoly profit is possible for certain market other than monopoly.

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Q: Why do consumers fair better under a Stackelberg Oligopoly than a Cournot Oligopoly?

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A: Oligopoly is a market structure will a small numbers of, none of which can keeps the others from…

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Q: Explain the implication of a nonprice competition in an Oligopoly market?

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