Price takers

Price takers
Individuals who respond to rates and prices by acting as though they have no influence on them. ...

All investors are price takers, i.e., their actions do not influence prices.

An idealized market structure in which there are large numbers of both buyers and sellers, all of them small, so that they act as price takers. Perfect competition also assumes homogeneous products, free entry and exit, and complete information.

- The existence of a majority of investors who act in a rational way (attempting to attain the maximum gain) and not connected among themselves (they are price takers).

[1] Ability to set price: Oligopolies are price setters rather than price takers[2] Entry and Exit: Barriers to entry are high.

This is because in a perfectly competitive market, sellers are price takers and can sell to as many people as they like at the prevailing price in the market.

Under PERFECT COMPETITION, all FIRMS are price takers. Where there is a MONOPOLY, or firms have some MARKET POWER, the seller has some control over the price, which will probably be higher than in a perfectly competitive market.

Perfect competition - A market structure in which all firms in an industry are price takers and in which there is freedom of entry into and exit from the industry.
Perfect complements - Two goods with right-angle indifference curves.

All firms are price takers.
3. All firms have a relatively small market share.
4. Buyers know the nature of the product being sold and the prices
charged by each firm.
5. The industry is characterized by freedom of entry and exit.

Many small firms
Absence of economies of scale
Firms do not have the ability to set prices (they are price takers)
Low Profits and low prices for consumers ...

Notes:
1. In the context of the stock market, individual investors are price takers.

The market structure widely populated with a bunch of powerless price takers is perfect competition. You should compare this term with price maker. Other related terms worth a look are price leader, natural monopoly, regulatory pricing.

Government intervention to set an artificially high price through the use of a price floor designed to aid producers.
Price takers ...

Under perfect competition all firms are small scale, products in each industry are homogeneous, consumers are perfectly informed about what is for sale and at what price, and all sellers are what economists call price takers (i.e.

See also: Price taker, Equilibrium, Elastic, Convertible security, Loan term