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Price-Value Potential for Near-Perfectly Competitive Markets

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This study introduces price-value potential to be used instead of price for market analysis by analogy with free energy or thermodynamic potential in physics. A conservation principle is proposed for price-value potential. It is shown that price-value potential provides a constructive way for market analysis by identifying variation of equilibrium prices and quantities for different products in market equilibrium. A perturbation theory for a group of products with small differentiations on near-perfectly competitive markets was developed for illustration of the approach. The concept of price-value potential is illustrated in a simple example of a near-perfectly competitive market. It is shown that the equilibrium prices and quantities for products differ due to product differentiation that makes such an approach a constructive enhancement to the classical model of perfect competition.

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  • Sergey K. Aityan, 2012. "Price-Value Potential for Near-Perfectly Competitive Markets," American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Science Publications, vol. 3(4), pages 623-635, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:abk:jajeba:ajebasp.2011.623.635
    DOI: 10.3844/ajebasp.2011.623.635
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