The Barrier to Entry That Allowed Alcoa to Make Persistent

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True/False

The barrier to entry that allowed Alcoa to make persistent economic profits was ownership of an essential input.

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Definitions:

Price War

A competitive business strategy in which companies repeatedly cut prices to undercut competitors, often resulting in reduced profit margins for everyone involved.

Tacit Collusion

An unspoken, informal agreement among competitors to avoid certain competitive practices, like price wars, to keep prices at a certain level or to divide markets.

Oligopolistic Firms

Companies that operate in an oligopoly, a market structure with a small number of firms that have significant market power, which influences their pricing and production decisions.

Product Differentiation

The approach of identifying unique aspects of a product or service to boost its attractiveness to a designated target market.