Some points of the characteristics of monopsony are discussed below. Monopsony has both advantages and disadvantages for the buyers and sellers which is to be noted down. Monopsony is a type of imperfect market.
Characteristics :
- Single large buyer
- Resource ownership
- Barriers to entry
- No alternative buyer
- Monopsony is a form of iperfect competition
- Buyer buys material with lower price
- Single buyer faces many sellers
- Monopsony has the bargaining power in the market as there is no other buyer
- Monopsony exists in both the product and labour markets
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- The reduced cost of purchasing imput increases their profit margin
- Some elasticity of labour or supplier