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Product differentiation in gain economic profits

Monopolistic competitors: (1) base decisions on the anticipated reactions of their many individual competitors. (2) can easily enter but not exit industries. (3) may sometimes act like monopolists and gain economic profits in the short run because of successful product differentiation, but not in the long run. (4) cannot survive in the long run unless subsidized by the government. (5) produce homogenous products.

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