What is the difference between monopoly and perfect competition?
Monopoly versus Perfect Competition:
1. Perfect competition is equal to monopoly competition, at the perfectly competitive firm's profit-maximizing quantity of output
2. Perfect competition is greater than to monopoly revenue and equal to monopoly competition, at the monopolist's profit-maximizing quantity of output.
Compared long with a competitive industry, a monopolist does the given below:
- Produces a smaller quantity: monopoly quantity less than control quantity as QM < QC.
- Charges a higher price: monopoly price greater than control price as PM > PC
- Earns a profit.