When a firm purchases factors of production in perfectly competitive factor markets, factors are paid their marginal revenue product. However, when a firm is the only buyer of a factor of production, then that factor is being exchanged in a monopsonistically competitive market. In this lesson, we explore the implications of a monopsonistically competitive factor market, specifically the market for
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