Contestability

Q6(d) From the material given, assess how contestable video game development is as a market.

Q7(b) Say what it means for a market to become less contestable, using the extract on online bicycle selling.

Q7(e) Discuss the obstacles a newcomer would face trying to break into the pharmaceutical industry.

Q8 Evaluate how contestable the fragrance market is, or an industry you choose, after TikTok owner ByteDance launched its own perfume.

Q7(e) Discuss the entry barriers facing a firm trying to break into global fast fashion retailing.

Q2 Identify what would make a market more contestable, given Canada's 2022 competition policy update (start-up legal costs / merger rules / patents / regulatory capture).

Q6 Identify what would deter entry into diamond mining in Botswana (subsidies / sunk costs / light regulation / low concentration).

Q7(c) Analyse two entry barriers that could block a newcomer from the UK energy market, using Figure 2 and Extract A.

Q1 Identify which factor also blocks new pharmaceutical firms from entering, alongside patents (Predatory pricing / Constant returns to scale / Low advertising costs / High supernormal profits).

Q6(e) Judge how contestable the coffee shop market looks, based on the evidence given.

Q7(c) Analyse, from Extract A, two obstacles to Stellantis winning a bigger share of the Chinese market.

Q1(d) Evaluate the micro and macro influences on how many firms operate within an industry, using hand car washes or any sector you pick.

Q7(d) Examine, with Extract B in mind, two barriers to entry that firms face in the US coffee shop market.

Q4 Identify the feature that is invariably present where a market is highly contestable (many small firms / high sunk costs / low barriers to entry / imperfect information).

Q7(e) Discuss how much entry and exit barriers matter for newcomers like Dyson in the electric car market, using the material supplied.

Q4(b) With a powerful brand and half of India's construction equipment market, JCB implies that market rates low on which? (concentration / contestability / private ownership / specialisation)