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Firm under monopoly

A firm under monopoly a price maker by the reasons shown below:

A) The monopolist is a single seller of the product in market. Therefore it has full control over supply.

B) There are no close replacements of the monopoly product, therefore the demand is less elastic or inelastic.

C) There are technical, legal and natural barriers to the entry of latest firms and hence there is no fear of increase in the market supply.

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