Product Differentiation

question 25

Multiple Choice

Product differentiation:

• A) refers to the attempt of firms to make their products look like those of the other firms in the industry and is used in a perfectly competitive market structure.
• B) refers to the attempt of firms to make real or apparent differences in essentially substitutable products look different in the minds of the consumers and is used in a monopolistically competitive market structure.
• C) leads to nonprice competition in a perfectly competitive market structure.
• D) leads to price equaling the minimum average total cost in the long run in a monopolistically competitive market structure.

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