Sentences with phrase «of market power»

This behaviour is referred to as «misuse of market power».

Among the top of those concerns is the concentration of market power, conflicts of interest, and unfair competitive advantages that big national banks would bring to brokerage and management.

It sure seems that way at times, particularly when they go after large, complex corporations with seemingly a lot of market power.

Where a company has high levels of market power it can face allegations of practices that may be prohibited under antitrust / competition laws in most major jurisdictions.

I've never had that kind of marketing power behind one of my novels.

We always had in mind to be a self - sustaining local tourism project, self - promoting our tours without the dependence of the market power of big tour agencies.

After giving grocery retailing a clean bill of health in 2008, the ACCC is looking at the sector with a fresh set of eyes amid accusations from suppliers and competitors of unfair dealings and abuse of market power by the major chains.

In other words, the consortia have the potential to exert a fair - amount of market power in a market that is currently dysfunctional.

Senator Nick Xenophon offered some additional comments, including once again calling for introduction of divestiture powers for breaching the misuse of market power provision as well as greater access to justice for small business.

Late last week, after more than six months of negotiations, supplier representatives gave their final draft of a voluntary code intended to curtail alleged misuse of market power by the supermarkets, to the government and retailers for review.

Nothing new, but heating up with the latest consultation on misuse of market power laws currently underway (see Treasury consultation page)

«In particular, the ACCC is inviting feedback from consumers, businesses, and other stakeholders about the issues and topics the ACCC can provide guidance on to assist them understand how the amended misuse of market power prohibition, and the prohibition on anti-competitive concerted practices are likely to operate and how we'll approach those provisions,» Sims said.

Preventing firms with a substantial degree of market power from engaging in conduct that has the purpose or effect of substantially lessening competition is now a central limb of Australia's competition laws.

As any auto dealer can tell you, there is a tremendous amount of market power involved in having what is effectively a two - way market, and of course Amazon is far more knowledgeable about relative price elasticity and inventory control than most auto dealers and manufacturers have proven themselves to be.

132 In other words, Bork's take was that vertical integration generally would not create forms of market power that firms could use to hike prices or constrain output.

The discussions come as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigates the chains over allegations of misuse of market power when dealing with suppliers.

Bruce Billson, «Harper review misuse of market power clause would energise enterprise» (AFR, 31 August 2015).

Utilities in states across the nation are ramping up their investments in solar power generation as well, but they continue to lobby for rules and regulations that maintain the balance of market power decidedly in their favor.

While this is more expensive than the current cost of market power at $ 32 / MWh, solar has no fuel costs, no risk of fuel cost increases, and no water or air pollution, coal ash clean - up, or nuclear waste costs.

While this is more expensive than the current cost of market power at

We heard about the new supermarket adjudicator appointed under the UK's mandatory supermarket code of conduct, and how she intended to exercise her powers, including by the imposition of «punitive fines» based on a percentage of turnover in the event of repeated abuses of market power down the supply chain by the supermarket majors.

These changes in market structure to favor the few were accomplished by various means: lack of oversight leading to concentration of market power through mergers and acquisitions, outright government subsidies to industry in various forms, including explicit subsidies to the equities and housing markets (among others) by the Federal Reserve to create a trickle down «wealth effect» in those markets, changes in the tax structure which increase the concentration of wealth, etc..

«Now there are real questions where those positions may be turning, where energy and financials are be seen as the solution for this administration in terms of getting growth going and there are real questions in terms of market power for companies like Facebook and Google on the ad side, Amazon obviously on the products side.

With the explosion of social media and other interactive websites plus the vastness of the Internet itself and online users, much of the marketing power has shifted out of the marketer's hands and into the consumers.

(See Jonathan B. Baker, «Competitive Price Discrimination: The Exercise of Market Power Without Anticompetitive Effects,» Antitrust Law Journal 70 (2003): 643 — 654; and Timothy J. Brennan, «Is Competition the Entry Barrier?

He did acknowledge that over time the build - up of market power by Amazon in other countries had been substantial, and the ACCC would scrutinise that carefully over the next few years.

It includes discussion of some of the submissions to the misuse of market power Senate review which have identified the decision as problematic for small business as well as more general discussion on some of the submissions.

I've posted a blog piece providing an overview and some commentary on today's Senate Economics Committee report on the misuse of market power bill.

«There is no evidence of market power on the buy side,» Mr Heilbron said in his report, which will be made public on Monday.

... Where there is effective competition, it is the on - going substitution process that ensures that any achievement of market power will be transitory.

Option 4: Amending section 50 to add an additional prohibition, so that section 50 also prohibits a corporation with existing substantial market power from making an acquisition if the acquisition would result in an enhancement of its market power in that market.

The allegations of misuse of market power concerned the supply of bread by Tip Top, Buttercup and Sunicrust Bakeries to retailers who discounted the price of bread.

It sold largely on the basis of the marketing power of Chevrolet and its enormous dealer network.

I also recognize the fact that Amazon is a gigantic corporation — and perhaps even one that is using books as a loss leader for other products — and there are risks of having a lot of market power concentrated in the hands of single entity.