What market structure is used to benchmark allocative efficiency and why do we use it? Illustrate and explain.
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2017-03-31T13:46:06-0400
Such market structure as perfect competition is used to benchmark allocative efficiency, because when conditions of perfect competition hold, it has been proven that a market will reach an equilibrium in which the quantity supplied for every product or service, including labor, equals the quantity demanded at the current price. This equilibrium will be a Pareto optimum, meaning that nobody can be made better off by exchange without making someone else worse off.
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