Big size
Identical product
Absence of government taxes
No close substitute
✅ The correct answer is D.
No close substitute is a condition for existence of monopoly. If a close substitute exists, then the monopoly cannot exist. Remember, a monopoly can only exist when the cross-elasticity of the product that the monopolist produces is zero.
No close substitute is a condition for existence of monopoly. If a close substitute exists, then the monopoly cannot exist. Remember, a monopoly can only exist when the cross-elasticity of the product that the monopolist produces is zero.