<p>Complete market is a market where every possible asset or good can be assigned a price and where you have perfect information, can make perfect contracts and zero transaction costs. Any market can be complete regardless of its market structure. So you can have complete market dominated by monopoly, or oligopoly or monopolistic competition etc.</p>

<p>Perfectly competitive market is a market where there are so many buyers and seller that firms become price takers and when the products are identical so there is a little scope for differentiation.</p>

<p>You can’t just call non-competitive market incomplete. For example, in standard undergrad treatment of monopoly you still assume complete markets, yet the market structure is non-competitive.</p>

<p>Yes when people talk about complete markets they do it in a pretty much same sense as Arrow-Debreu </p>

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you refer that in standard undergrad treatment of monopoly you still assume complete markets, yet the market structure is non-competitive. Can you present a specific example or some note which is referred to some example like this? Thank you in advance!
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@Nav89 sure look for example at example of monopoly market structure in Mankiews principles of economics. Although I think you will find it any good undergraduate textbook.
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<p>The very insightful questions that arise, when someone studies micro foundation are the following: What is the difference between competitive and complete marekts? When we refer to the first is it equivalent as to refer in the latter? Also, when we speak about non-competitive markets, can we also refer to them as incomplete markets? In addition to this, complete or incomplete markets have always the so-called Arrow-Debreu sense of complete/incomplete markets?</p>

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Competitive vs complete and non-competitive vs incomplete marekts
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# Competitive vs complete and non-competitive vs incomplete marekts

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-23)

The very insightful questions that arise, when someone studies micro foundation are the following: What is the difference between competitive and complete marekts? When we refer to the first is it equivalent as to refer in the latter? Also, when we speak about non-competitive markets, can we also refer to them as incomplete markets? In addition to this, complete or incomplete markets have always the so-called Arrow-Debreu sense of complete/incomplete markets?

**Tags:** microeconomics, markets, financial-markets, competition, complete-markets

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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-11-23. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

Complete market is a market where every possible asset or good can be assigned a price and where you have perfect information, can make perfect contracts and zero transaction costs. Any market can be complete regardless of its market structure. So you can have complete market dominated by monopoly, or oligopoly or monopolistic competition etc.

Perfectly competitive market is a market where there are so many buyers and seller that firms become price takers and when the products are identical so there is a little scope for differentiation.

You can’t just call non-competitive market incomplete. For example, in standard undergrad treatment of monopoly you still assume complete markets, yet the market structure is non-competitive.

Yes when people talk about complete markets they do it in a pretty much same sense as Arrow-Debreu

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> **username_0**: you refer that in standard undergrad treatment of monopoly you still assume complete markets, yet the market structure is non-competitive. Can you present a specific example or some note which is referred to some example like this? Thank you in advance!  
> **username_1**: @Nav89 sure look for example at example of monopoly market structure in Mankiews principles of economics. Although I think you will find it any good undergraduate textbook.  

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