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  2. Oligopoly - Wikipedia

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    An oligopoly (from Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and πωλέω (pōléō) 'to sell') is a market in which pricing control lies in the hands of a few sellers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As a result of their significant market power, firms in oligopolistic markets can influence prices through manipulating the supply function .

  3. Price fixing - Wikipedia

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    Price fixing is an anticompetitive agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand.

  4. Market structure - Wikipedia

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    Oligopoly: The number of enterprises is small, entry and exit from the market are restricted, product attributes are different, and the demand curve is downward sloping and relatively inelastic. Oligopolies are usually found in industries in which initial capital requirements are high and existing companies have strong foothold in market share.

  5. Concentration of media ownership - Wikipedia

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    Between 1990 and 2005 there were a number of media corporate mergers and takeovers in Canada. For example, in 1990, 17.3% of daily newspapers were independently owned; whereas in 2005, 1% were. [34] These changes, among others, caused the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications to launch a study of Canadian news media in March ...

  6. Perfect competition - Wikipedia

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    An oligopoly usually has economic profit also, but operates in a market with more than just one firm (they must share available demand at the market price). Economic profit is, however, much more prevalent in uncompetitive markets such as in a perfect monopoly or oligopoly situation.

  7. Bertrand–Edgeworth model - Wikipedia

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    In microeconomics, the Bertrand–Edgeworth model of price-setting oligopoly looks at what happens when there is a homogeneous product (i.e. consumers want to buy from the cheapest seller) where there is a limit to the output of firms which are willing and able to sell at a particular price. This differs from the Bertrand competition model ...

  8. Conjectural variation - Wikipedia

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    In oligopoly theory, conjectural variation is the belief that one firm has an idea about the way its competitors may react if it varies its output or price. The firm forms a conjecture about the variation in the other firm's output that will accompany any change in its own output.

  9. List of companies of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Canada is the world's eighth-largest economy as of 2022 [update] , with a nominal GDP of approximately US$2.2 trillion. [ 1 ] It is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of Seven (G7), and is one of the world's top ten trading ...