Businesses don't operate in a bubble -- their sales and profitability are affected by the business environment in which they operate. Many factors affect this environment, from regulation and ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. 1 Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of ...

With the inevitable consolidation of the DRAM business, something that Objective Analysis thoroughly analyzed and explained back in 2010, many have adopted the notion that the business would ...

We study an oligopoly model with asymmetric information and product differentiation. The analysis focuses on credit markets. We assume information to be asymmetric with respect to customer ...

When companies within the same industry work together to increase their mutual profits instead of exclusively competing with one another, it is known as an oligopoly. Oligopolies are observed ...

Many consumer advocates are worried that consolidation in the U.S. airline industry is creating an oligopoly. After AMR and US Airways close their merger next week, there will be just three network ...

The opposition questions the government’s willingness to hand over public contracts to private companies, given their track record in project failures. Recently appointed Cabinet Office Minister David ...

America is at an impasse. Nothing is sacred. Everything is up for debate. Liberals hope to abolish the electoral college. Conservatives distrust mail-in ballots. Both are fundamental components of ...