Sentences with phrase «oligopolistic markets»

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

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?

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.

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 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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

Wagner, L 2004, «Modelling the Australian Domestic Gas Market: A Mixed Complementarity approach with Oligopolistic Behaviour», paper presented to 37th International Association for Energy Economics conference, New York, USA, June 2014.

Now, as you equate profitability to efficiency (what a crock) without taking into account monopolistic and oligopolistic practices, market manipulations, subsidies, or any of the elements in the article on diseconomies of scale relevant to what could keep a market running past its optimum, one must say to you one word.

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.

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.

«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).

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