monopoly

Examples of oligopoly

oligopoly
Disciplines like economics or political science use disparate models to analyze monopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition, public goods, elections, coalition formation, and so on.
Over the past seventy years, the forest estate has passed from monopoly to oligopoly ownership and back to (state) monopolistic control.
The breweries' transformation of promotion into a vertically integrated oligopoly gradually squeezed out booking agents, smaller promoters and competing sponsors.
Therefore, these clustered oligopolies managed the politics of market-power relations through pushing service and brand names and attention to cost-saving internal adjustments.
Unionized workers continued to represent a relatively privileged minority of the labour force working for public monopolies or private oligopolies.
In fact, he regarded elite coalitions as the political equivalents of economic oligopolies, which undermined the possibility of perfect competition.
The television marketplace, once an oligopoly, is now competitive.
They exercise an oligopoly over not only land and presumably also wealth but also social power.
As courts proved unwilling to broaden (and prone to narrow) the scope of regulating "big business," administrated prices and corespective behavior within oligopolies thrived.
Quite simply, concentrating such industries into monopolies or oligopolies was unthinkable.
These time series are clearly highly correlated and this could be an indication of either an oligopoly or a highly competitive market for life and pension insurance.
Sometimes economic forms emerge and survive on their own, but sometimes they require quite a lot of policy intervention, for example to prevent the formation of oligopolies.
Their interests are not tied to the preservation of sheltered oligopolies and related restrictions, but to the rapid expansion of their own firms and related markets.
Strategic reasons for relocation may also be important for firms that operate in a monopoly or oligopoly environment, where firms' output and input use would affect output and input prices.
The public service monopoly in a sector of national sovereignty will be replaced by the oligopoly of a handful of multinationals.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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