Michael Weiss is a columnist for Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, and NOW Lebanon. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Modern Russia where he is the editor-in-chief of The Interpreter, an online news and translation journal covering Russian foreign policy and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Perfectly competitive firms are small in size in relation to the market size â and none of these firms control the market. A monopolist firm, on the other hand, is larger and controls the entire market for its industry. Monopolistic firms are price makers by virtue of their market control.
Like perfect competition, a monopolistic competitive industry has many firms, or if there are not many firms, there are at least many competing products that are almost identical in nature.onopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition. We begin our analysis by looking at a model of monopolistic competition. As the name monopolistic competition suggests, the industry shares characteristics of both a perfectly competitive industry and a monopoly.