What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?
In practice it is unlikely that the conditions of a perfectly comeptitive market will exist, however these conditions are set as:
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Many buyers and sellers in the market
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Homogenous products
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Perfect information avalable to consumers about prices.
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No barriers to entry or exit to the market
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Perfectly mobile factors of production
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