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The learning objectives of week 3 were to determine pricing strategy to meet organizational goals, determine ways to create non price barriers to entry based on market structure, determine ways to increase product differentiation based on market structure, and to determine ways to reduce costs for an organization. ================================================ ECO 561 Week 3 Market Structure And Pricing Power For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com ECO 561 WEEK 3 MARKET STRUCTURE AND PRICING POWER Select a new, realistic good or service for an existing industry, preferably an industry you current work in or one in which you are interested in working. Develop a 1,400-word evaluation of pricing strategies available producers of your selected product. This will include statements about the market structure and the elasticity of demand for the product, based on text book principles and real world products under development. Identify the market structure of the industry (monopoly, oligopoly, competitive monopoly). Determine elasticity of demand for various quality ranges of the product based on textbook theory and judgments about the degree of luxury vs. necessity represented by various brands (e.g. a luxury car vs an economy car).