Sentences with phrase «oligopoly in»

Another issue, is that of a Monopoly / Oligopoly in Canada vs more competition in the US.

That's because bookstores & the Big 5 publishers had an oligopoly in the market and you could read anything you wanted, as long as it was what * they * wanted you to read.

The only lithium plays that will join this oligopoly in the future are those that can prove their project economics can match or beat the established producers.

Companies as diverse as Square, Snapchat and Apple are trying to disrupt financial services in their own way, and the banks, accustomed to enjoying an oligopoly in Canada, can't risk getting caught off guard by technological change.

Various uses, including revision for the Edexcel F584 Transport Economics paper, a case study for market structures, costs / revenues / abnormal profits, oligopolies in general.

Not exact matches

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About a generation after small breweries with flavourful beers stormed the oligopoly that controlled the beer sector, craft beers, many of them made in micro-breweries and distributed locally, have become frothy and surprisingly upscale competitors in an industry that traditionally functioned at the meat - and - potatoes end of the alcohol spectrum.

Well, fellow healthcare revolutionaries, I would submit that the answer, in part, is to break up the oligopolies.

Since the Canadian financial services industry is dominated by the major 5 banks, CIBC operates in what is essentially an oligopoly.

The Equifax breach offers a critical lesson in exactly what information large corporations keep on us, how they exploit and mishandle it, and why the time has come to break up this oligopoly.

Noting this in the early 1970s, the power of oligopolies to raise prices at will, his solution was a totally planned economy, nationalized industry, with price controls.

Get ~ $ 1.5 - 2.5 trillion from our banking oligopoly and then get some amount from our federal government issue ~ $ 3 - 5 trillion in shares for FIB and let maximum assets in FIB be ~ $ 7 - 10 trillion.

Lacavera is a minor celebrity in Canada for having been a serial CEO, most notably of WIND Canada, which briefly challenged the Bell / Telus / Rogers telecom oligopoly.

Also, being part of the regulated oligopoly of consumer utilities delivering a core need for people in the United States, they aren't likely to be disrupted by a technology change (in fact, they may benefit from it if it costs them less).

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In an oligopoly, if you can't beat the established producers on cost, you won't last.

Canada's banking system is sometimes referred to as an oligopoly yet we have more large banks that compete aggressively than virtually any country in Europe including the UK.

I hope he knows that except pretending otherwise to please his wealthy friends in Insurance business to make another monopoly and oligopoly business industry for the wealthy.

They should not only apply to state - citizen, but also to citizen - citizen relationships In the case of information provision there should be protection against information oligopolies organized by fellow - citizens.

Deregulation is the fig leaf that covers clandestine regulation (in contradiction therefore to the fundamental rule of democracy that demands transparency) by the dominant capital of oligopolies.

There is an item in today's Australian by Damon Kitney and Andrew White - «We are an oligopoly economy: Robb», describing opposition finance spokesman, Andrew Robb's, statements at the Global Food Forum series in Sydney, that Australians «should not be opposed to create national champion's and claiming «Australians need to accept that the nation is an «oligopoly economy»».

The main trends I argued against in that essay were the liberal consensus, the persistence of class and the permanence of monopoly and oligopoly.

He said that on housing, Labour «bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house builders but it's in their interests to bank land and ration housing so that house prices continue to rocket».

Topics covered include perfect competition, oligopolies and monopolies, ways of competing in different markets, risk and uncertainty and how businesses seek to minimise the risks.

That's why the incumbent suppliers — textbook companies — have been able to protect their oligopoly even in the age of «disruptive innovation.»

In K - 12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high - quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake.

The opponents of educational choice are attempting to defend the monopoly of the neighborhood school in a nation in which most monopolies and oligopolies (see the phone company, the post office or newspapers) have come under pressure.

There's nothing stopping them, but they've set a standard, and when the standard changes in oligopolies, the big players change together.

Those first 3 chapters were marked by monopoly / oligopoly, where only the anointed and the lucky were chosen to participate and then only to be fed upon by the slew of parasites in the publishing world.

It not only helps in analyzing economic conditions but also studies the social needs under different market structures, namely oligopoly, monopoly, perfect competition, duopoly, etc..

Currently, big publishing is holding firm with its contracts, the boilerplate of which hearkens back to when the industry was an oligopoly, «a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.»

Retailers would be duly put in their place and the paper oligopoly would be protected by inflated ebook prices across the board.

All of these laws redound to the benefit of bigger corporations who can handle the overhead and whose oligopolies are thereby entrenched, at the expense of smaller competitors and consumers in general.

The right response here is: for the state to leave this alone and let the companies involved work out whatever contractual terms they wish, whether agency model, wholesale model, or some hybrid; stop employing antitrust law against even nominally private companies; stop enacting and enforcing laws that give rise to monopoly prices and oligopolies and corporatism and crony capitalism in the first place, such as copyright law, antitrust law, pro-union legislation, minimum wage, taxation in general, inflation and the business cycle, and other business regulations.

Is book publishing an oligopoly, a dinosaur in need of disruption?

An global oligopoly of companies grew organically and through acquisitions to become dominant in life reinsurance.

In 1992, they were cleared to buy the trusts that were the initial beneficiaries of CMHC's backstop, triggering the consolidation that cemented today's oligopoly.

Reinsurance of mortality in the present environment is a cozy oligopoly, with one former main player, Scottish Re (spit, spit), badly damaged.

But if McKay and his counterparts in the oligopoly aren't hypocrites, they certainly are barriers to change.

I do not believe much in financial cabals, although concerns about monopolies and oligopolies seem quite real to me.

@Sean: While I don't disagree that many Canadian companies have a nice oligopoly (I hesitate to call it collusion) going, plenty of cheaper options are available in mutual funds, banking and even telecom.

Since they work in an oligopoly they will get away with it.

In fact, his first exhibition with Postmasters, Derivatives (2011), featured a painting called «Oligopoly (Revised)» (2011), a densely layered art world food pyramid topped by billionaire collectors while «The Yearning Unselected * You Are Probably Here» sink to the bottom.

We also have to keep in mind that part of the growth for the personal transportation and economic freight hauling we the need for alternatives to the rail oligopoly.

To me, though, the policy's results show how a determined government can eventually shake up complacent oligopolies and point their thinking in a different direction.

The Koch brothers and utility giants are bankrolling a ballot initiative in Florida to block the development of home solar and to protect the utilities» continuing oligopoly on energy generation in the Sunshine State.

If passed, their constitutional amendment would end the utilities» oligopoly on energy generation in Florida and give homeowners the flexibility to enter into contracts with solar companies, also known as Solar Power Purchase Agreements (SPPA).

While gasoline is burned in millions of vehicles, the distribution system remains within the control of a few corporations, which often have regional or national oligopoly or monopoly control.

Special cases include monopoly, Cournot and Bertrand oligopoly and competition in linear supply schedules.

The energy reforms were the capstone in a sweeping effort to break down Mexico's old monopolies and oligopolies and turn the country into an easier place to do business.