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Industrial Organization and Market Structure

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In a perfectly competitive market, the demand curve for an individual firm is:

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Horizontal
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In a perfectly competitive market, the individual firm is a price taker, meaning that it has no control over the market price. Therefore, the demand curve for an individual firm is perfectly elastic, which is represented by a horizontal line.

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