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A Note on Administered Prices with Fluctuating Demand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

John R. McKean
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One of the problems which has plagued microeconomic theory is the difficulty in achieving close correspondence between formal models and practical market situations. The most widely accepted models envisage the firm set in a static mold with the implication that profits will be maximized in every period. The model is more generally acceptable in the case of perfect competition, for then the market results are most likely to be “as if” the firms acted marginally to maximize profits. Only the profit maximizers will survive. While such a scheme may lead to realistic results in the case of perfect competition, this condition does not bulk large in the United States economy.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1969 , pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1969

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