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• Tories plan break up of energy oligopoly

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  We have been studying oligopoly in our A2 micro and the issue of electricity and gas prices has been headline news for some time. Last week the Conservatives announced plans to break up the highly concentrated domestic energy supply market and inject fresh competition. This is reported here in the Guardian . There is ...
  1 day ago

• Google Wave: Benefits and Costs of Monopoly

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  The number of Google Wavers among the Economics teaching community continues to grow. Last night we generated ideas and resources useful in evaluating the impact of monopoly power in markets - the results are shown below Are monopolies a force for good or evil? Discuss. Different definitions of monopoly power 1/ ...
  6 days ago

• What would Teddy (Roosevelt) do?

  
  The Park Paradigm — Authority: 100
  I have long been concerned by the rise and rise of the global mega-bank , first due to my conviction of the impossibility of managing such complex behemoths (with the dangers as we all now know having repercussions far beyond any individual bank’s shareholders or creditors) and also due to the increasing rents ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Moving into a networked era, Tumblr envy, Open Web

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal research industry) to feel some pressure as Google rolls out another free and disruptive service. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Roaming across the same network in different countries

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  Why does it cost extra to roam in another countries when I am using the same operator in all of the countries? If I am, say, a T-Mobile customer in England, and I visit Germany and use my T-Mobile phone there, on a T-Mobile network, why does it cost so much more? Also, why do international calls cost more? Isnt ...
  3 weeks ago

• Goldman Sachs ‘Shooting Fish in a Barrel’

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 433
  Those who take risk do not always win. A variety of mathematical models dealing with risk address and negate the chance of almost uniform success by one party. While those on Wall Street would promote the overwhelming risks in the industry, I would maintain that Wall Street circa 2009 is not in the risk business. How ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2010 trends: Data and mobile communication

  
  ComMetrics: social media monitoring => best practice — Authority: 410
  When it comes to data services, social networks, cloud computing, mobile and music, market concentration is constantly on the rise. Could this mean the burst of another bubble, once again requiring taxpayers to foot the bill? Below, we discuss this from a Web 2.0 perspective. In the meantime, to keep up with our ...
  4 weeks ago

• GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer choose to collaborate on HIV drugs

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  Here is an excellent highly relevant article on cooperative behaviour between oligopolistic giants. Two of the world’s biggest drugs companies GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer have announced a plan to merge their HIV treatments in a joint venture. ViiV Healthcare is an attempt for both companies to limit the risks of ...
  4 weeks ago

• RBS Lloyds sell-off

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  The UK market has fewer bank brands than most other countries and choice has fallen in recent years after the Spanish bank, Santander bought up Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, and Lloyds has taken over all of HBOS’s brands. However, as per a ruling from the European Commission , RBS will ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Wall Street Oligopoly Rails on Compensation Controls

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 559
  Is there a hotter topic currently on Wall Street than compensation? I have to admit, I have a range of emotions on this issue. I pride myself on being a proponent of free market capitalism. As such, while the government needs to be actively involved in regulating the marketplace, beyond that I would just as soon see ...
  5 weeks ago

• October 24, 2009: Month to Date Market Review

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 433
  Did the market merely take a breather this week or is the ‘little engine that could’ getting tired? Are we distinguishing the winners from the laggards? Are the cracks in our economic foundation repairing or are some just too large to hold back the flow of red ink, i.e. embedded losses? Perhaps we are experiencing ...
  6 weeks ago

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