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Natural monopoly

For a natural monopoly the long-run average cost curve falls continuously over a large range of output. The result may be that there is only room in a market for one firm to fully exploit the economies of scale that are available. In natural monopolies there is usually a very high cost to entering the market which makes it inefficient for there to be more than one producer.

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