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- a market in which there are only a few, very large, suppliers
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- Durable goods oligopoly with innovation: theory and empirics
- Ronald Goettler Carnegie Mellon and Brett Gordon Columbia. Discussant: Ana Aizcorbe. This paper proposes a model of dynamic oligopoly and applies it to the microprocessor industry. Our findings highlight the "competing-with-itself" aspect of being a monopolist of a durable good: the monopolist must innovate to stimulate demand through upgrades....
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Record prices drive race for mineral sector mergers
- PARIS AFP — Record metal prices and a drive to corner the markets have spurred mining groups into competition while sparking a frenzy of mega mergers. The latest to date was an offer of 33 billion dollars (24 billion euros) a week ago by US aluminium group Alcoa for...
- Research articles 2007-05-12
- Franco Modigliani and oligopoly
- 1. Some personal recollections I met Franco in 1948 - over half a century ago! - in Chicago, when he was teaching at the University of Illinois, where I had arrived with a research scholarship. He and his wife Serena would often invite me to dinner, and we would go...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- ELECTRICITY: REGULATORS TOLD NO PLACE FOR OLIGOPOLIES ON LIBERALISED MARKETS.
- Market opening. Francois Lamoureux's diatribe against oligopolies caused some surprise since the European Commission has until now merely observed the changes in the competitive landscape in the European electricity industry. The first liberalisation Directive in 1996, introduced after ten years of often acrimonious...
- Research articles 2004-09-24
- Diller wants more regulation: networks have turned into an 'oligopoly,' he laments. (Top of the Week: NAB).
- About those huge vertically integrated media companies that USA Interactive CEO Barry Duller has spent most of his career working for. He wants you to know they're not evil. They just need to be regulated. In some cases, "tightly" regulated. That was...
- Research articles 2003-04-14
- OFT merger guidelines greeted positively.
- Byline: Michael Hoare Lawyers have welcomed the new merger guidelines released for consultation by the Office of Fair Trading OFT, the UK competition regulator, saying they provide important clarity on some key issues.They say the OFT paper gives fairly specific guidance on topical issues...
- Research articles 2002-10-18
- Mexican Blue Chips Likely To Do Well In Recession.
- MEXICO CITY, Nov 6, 2001 Even though Mexico's economic slowdown is expected to continue into 2002, the largest companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange BMV are expected to maintain solid profits and operating revenues, reported Mexico City daily Reforma. The companies will continue with...
- Research articles 2001-11-06
- Gurus of a new world.
- Sep 6, 2001 BRW ABIX via COMTEX -- Industry in Australia has been exposed to global forces for decades. There is a dominance of oligopolies in the Australian industry and this is seen to inhibit the adaptation of industry to globalisation. An associate professor...
- Research articles 2001-09-05
- Industrialization And Consolidation In The U.S. Food Sector: Implications For Competition And Welfare
- Food processing, distribution, and retailing activities account for the majority of retail food and beverage costs for all major U.S. commodity groups, and the share of costs attributable to these marketing activities is rising over time. Consider, for example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "market basket" of food products. The...
- Research articles 2000-11-15
- Automotive Suppliers Must Accelerate Toward "Oligopoly" Not Broad M&A Strategy, Suggests New Accenture Supplier Index
- Business Editors
- Research articles 2001-09-11
- Mixed Oligopoly, Subsidization And The Order Of Firm's Moves: The Relevance Of Privatization
- A series of previous papers demonstrate that there are no consequences from privatization in a mixed oligopoly when the government uses a subsidy to ensure first best. This conclusion depends upon the assumption that privatization results in a simultaneous move oligopoly. If instead privatization results in a public leader becoming...
- White papers 2003-12-04
- Strategic Trade Policy on Oligopolistic Markets
- The main purpose of this paper is to show theoretical assumptions of a motivation for implementing subsidies for domestic firm being a part of an international oligopoly. The paper will present figures showing the level of the R&D subsidisation in the EU-countries as well as in the countries joining the...
- White papers
- The Market for Intellectual Property: The Case of Complementary Oligopoly
- This paper applies a model of complementary oligopoly and anticommons pricing to the market for intellectual property rights. The model evidences the interesting and often overlooked result that, in the market for complementary goods price coordination and monopolistic pricing do not necessarily represent inefficient equilibria, when compared to the alternative...
- White papers 2002-05-29
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- Oligopoly. (gene drugs) (Science and Technology)
- Gene drugs Oligopoly ALL drugs--even the humblest and oldest ones--work by attacking proteins that have been linked to a disease or some other unpleasantness. The trouble with such protein-bashing drugs is that they are sledgehammers that tend to cause unwanted side-effects. A growing...
- Research articles 1989-06-17
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- This paper investigates the problem of planning marketing mix in dynamic competitive markets. The authors extend the Lanchester model by incorporating interaction effects, constructing the marketing-mix algorithm that yields marketing-mix plans with strategic foresight, and developing the continuous-discrete estimation method to calibrate dynamic models of oligopoly using market data. Both...
- White papers 2005-03-04
- American's Pilot Fighting for Compensation Restoration Once Again
- American's Pilot Fighting for Compensation Restoration Once AgainRE: American's Pilot Fighting for Compensation Restoration Once AgainCrank said..." The thing that’s really just amazing here is that the laws of supply and demand show that when fares go up, demand goes down. So, what happens when demand goes down? The pilots...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Exclusion zone; Rating agencies.(Do rating agencies distort financial markets?)(SEC investigatino)
- Regulators promise a belated review of the ratings oligopoly Regulators promise a belated review of the ratings oligopoly
- Research articles 2003-02-08
- Sarbanes-Oxley, just the beginning
- The GAO's report, Public Accounting Firms--Mandated Study on Consolidation and Competition, is fascinating reading. There is the finding that large public company auditing is a "tight oligopoly" among the Big Four, which the GAO indicates "raises potentia The GAO's report, Public Accounting Firms--Mandated Study on...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- HBOS (HBOS).
- 842p - Banks - Since its creation in September 2001 through the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, HBOS has bounded ahead. Keen to project itself as the new force in banking, and ready to challenge the oligopoly of the 'big four' clearing banks, 842p...
- Research articles 2005-03-11
- Financial Roundup: CEOs To Get Grilled, Geithner To Plug Holes, Regionals Not Consolidating
- Grilling the chiefs -- Eight of the biggest CEO names in banking, including Goldman Sach's Lloyd C. Blankfein, Citigroup's Vikram S. Pandit and Bank of America's Kenneth D. Lewis, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee today. Likely questions include how they spent $160 billion in bailout money, a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
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