Pricing strategy and market structures
overview:
Pricing strategy varies significantly across different market structures. The pricing guidelines in a monopoly market are relatively straightforward. Since the company is the only producer offering the product, it can mark-up the price as far as the customer can bear. The pricing strategies for a producer operating in a perfect competition structure are also fairly intuitive. They are price takers, and hence price is set at the marginal cost of the product. This is due to the fact that there are many firms offering nearly identical products.
optimal Pricing strategy and market structures
However, there is the optimal pricing for the market structures offering differentiated products with many competitors (oligopoly) or a few producers (monopolistic competition). These are much more complex and involved. It has been stated that differentiation in products that creates differences in customer valuation is the most prevalent type of competition. In such markets pricing strategies may include the three C’s of cost, competition, and customer.
The instructions concerning this assignment as well as the grading rubric are reproduced below.
Develop a paper detailing an analysis of market structures and relating pricing strategies that are suitable for each of these structures. Furthermore, include a real world example of pricing strategy for a specific company by identifying its market structure.
Your paper should be around 10 double spaced pages, in APA Format and structured as follows:
Cover page with a running head
Abstract
1. Perfect Competition
Also, 1.1. Description
1.2. Pricing Strategies
Also, 2. Monopolistic competition
2.1. Description
2.2. Pricing Strategies
Also, 3. Oligopoly
3.1. Description
3.2. Pricing Strategies
Also, 4. Monopoly
4.1. Description
4.2. Pricing Strategies
5. Case Study
Also, 6. Conclusion
Lastly, References
Your Pricing strategy varies significantly across different market structures paper needs to include at least three scholarly sources, i.e. peer reviewed articles. I strongly recommend the use of the APUS library for these sources, as most acceptable resources can only be found in protected databases.
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