Business & Finance homework help

The Week 4 assignment is a group project. During Week 4 or earlier, five to six students are assigned groups. Each group leader will submit the assignment on behalf of their group. Each group selects one factual business example then, responds to the following:

• Distinguish among four market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly in this order.
• Identify your company’s market structure (i.e., perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly), explaining your reasoning.
• Examine whether competitive pressures are present in your company’s industry with high barriers to entry.
• Evaluate how high barriers to entry into the industry may influence your company’s long-run profitability.
• Explain the price elasticity of demand in your company’s market structure and its effect on your company’s pricing decision.
• Investigate whether government regulations encourage or discourage your business relative to its industry.
• Analyze how the role of the government may affect your market structure’s ability to price its products.

The Market Structures paper

• Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style resource (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper