Sentences with word «oligopolistic»

This results in pricing inefficiencies characteristic of oligopolistic markets.

Others are refugees from declining or oligopolistic industries, seeking new fields that offer more opportunity but where they lack personal experience.

Collusive oligopolies Another key feature of oligopolistic markets is that firms may attempt to collude, rather than compete.

In the view of some start - ups, this creates an incentive for the banks to fight disruptive innovations, as those disruptions put oligopolistic profits at risk.

The current oligopolistic nature of life reinsurance may shorten that timespan.

It is therefore relevant to question whether consolidation does guarantee sufficient independent locations for media workers, does it guarantee enough channels for audience reception and / or access, does it provide adequate protection against price controls on oligopolistic markets, and does it permit newcomers on markets?

Until recently, the insurance carriers have had almost oligopolistic powers in the secondary market for Canadian life insurance.

Represented Shell in consumer class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging oligopolistic control over prices in retail gasoline market.

All these companies enjoy oligopolistic characteristics.

He is the «uncarrier,» champion of the consumer, and will never become a cozy oligopolistic, he insists.

These were often oligopolistic markets with very large players operating essentially in their own vertical and narrowly - focused silos.

If China can reform land ownership, reform the hukou system, enforce a fairer and more predictable legal system on businesses, reduce rent - capturing by oligopolistic elites, reform the financial system (both liberalizing interest rates and improving the allocation of capital), and even privatize assets, 3 - 4 % GDP growth can be accompanied by growth in household income of 5 - 7 %.

The infant formula industry «may have some characteristics that make it conducive for collusive or oligopolistic firm behavior, «Arquit said.

The issue with VOD's other markets is not so much that they are mature, but rather they are not oligopolistic like the US market, and are far more prepaid in nature and characterized by sub's who are not as loyal, can more easily switch and are completely price drive.

This in turn, should be easy to detect for the cartelists and one could even imagine tacit collusion or oligopolistic interdependence, depending on how concentrated the market is.

Our leverage with oligopolistic publishers is bad, but I don't think it's that bad.

However, as Mt. Gox's problems mounted, the bitcoin exchange sector took on a more oligopolistic appearance.

«Monopolistic or oligopolistic power does not exist within real property markets.

The initial, inherent tension in this statement should be obvious: the assertion is simultaneously that this a non-competitive, oligopolistic market and that American Express is using the anti-steering provision to harm its competitors.

Kalanick deserves enormous credit for envisioning Uber as a transportation service that would disrupt and transform the entire land - based travel industry — including both the oligopolistic, old - fashioned taxi services and the overpriced limousine industry.

This isn't just in Canada, in virtually every 1st world nation the competitive landscape is an oligopolistic situation.

Due to the oligopolistic nature of the industry (caused, in part, by high barriers to entry), Canada's Big Six are more profitable than similarly sized banks in other countries.

While it's encouraging to see lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices spiraling upwards, the oligopolistic market structure ensures that only the established players like SQM (SQM: NYSE), Albemarle (ALB: NYSE), and FMC (FMC: NYSE) should see margin expansion from higher prices as their fixed cost structures are in place and variable costs are falling due to a mixture of lower oil prices and currency depreciation.

The oligopolistic market structure of lithium has always worried me and I think it could present problems for juniors who are looking to join the select company of lithium producers.

«So, in these oligopolistic industries, such as pork, where four manufacturers control over 75 percent of the American pork industry, there will be much price cutting, layoffs, etc., as competitors start feeling the hot breath of China on their necks.»

This Establishment used to have an oligopolistic lock on book production, distribution, and sales.

It's closer to a utility because it operates in an oligopolistic industry.

If such major industries as oil, steel, and aluminum really have the oligopolistic muscle imputed to them, one can only conclude that their pricing policies have been remarkably restrained.

One can only hope that the DOJ, which approved the mega-mergers that have now led to this oligopolistic cartel, will move quickly to undo it before it bankrupts the consumer!

They have noted that the console markets have become competitive and oligopolistic, while the smartphones and tablet market is expanding rapidly.

«The business environment surrounding the Group is in the midst of major changes, where smart devices such as smartphone and tablet PCs are spreading rapidly, while the console game markets in North America and Europe are increasingly competitive and oligopolistic.»

Earlier this month, the company announced significant losses during their most recent fiscal quarter, blaming the shortfall on an «increasingly competitive and oligopolistic» console market.

The business environment surrounding the Group is in the midst of major changes, where consumer needs for content suitable to smart devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs are rapidly expanding, while the console game markets in North America and Europe are increasingly getting competitive and oligopolistic.

Earlier this month, the company announced that they had significant losses in the past fiscal year, blaming it on the «increasingly competitive and oligopolistic» console market.

Is it because those customers feel they have been ripped off by paying high prices for information in an oligopolistic market, and conned by sales people who understand little about the content and functions of the products they are pushing?

«The market for this type of software is oligopolistic,» he said of his child and spousal support calculator iGuideline (now available via Apple's App Store).

Concomitantly, the minute we, the Bar, allow alternate legal services we have lost control, and hence any oligopolistic profits.

A key product for one of the most well - known industry startups, the digital asset won no shortage of favor from investors enamored by its goal of disrupting an oligopolistic global payments industry.