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  2. Natural monopoly - Wikipedia

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    A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs and other barriers to entry relative to the size of the market give the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, an overwhelming advantage over potential competitors. Specifically, an industry is a natural monopoly if the total cost ...

  3. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    A natural monopoly is an organization that experiences increasing returns to scale over the relevant range of output and relatively high fixed costs. [70] A natural monopoly occurs where the average cost of production "declines throughout the relevant range of product demand".

  4. Anti-competitive practices - Wikipedia

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    Natural monopoly: This type of monopoly occurs when a firm can efficiently supply the entire market due to economies of scale, where larger production leads to lower costs. For example, in some cases, utilities (such as those providing electricity or water) may operate as natural monopolies due to high infrastructure and distribution costs.

  5. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The rule was later applied by Marcel Boiteux (1956) to natural monopolies (industries with decreasing average cost). A natural monopoly earns negative profits if it sets price equals to marginal cost, so it must set prices for some or all of the products it sells to above marginal cost if it is to be viable without government subsidies. Ramsey ...

  6. Small but significant and non-transitory increase in price

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    The critical loss is defined as the maximum sales loss that could be sustained as a result of the price increase without making the price increase unprofitable. Where the likely loss of sales to the hypothetical monopolist (cartel) is less than the Critical Loss, then a 5% price increase would be profitable and the market is defined.

  7. Sales process engineering - Wikipedia

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    Reasons for having a well-thought-out sales process include seller and buyer risk management, standardized customer interaction during sales, and scalable revenue generation. Approaching the subject from a "process" point of view offers an opportunity to use design and improvement tools from other disciplines and process-oriented industries. [8]

  8. Monopoly price - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] A monopoly occurs when a firm lacks any viable competition and is the sole producer of the industry's product. [1] [2] Because a monopoly faces no competition, it has absolute market power and can set a price above the firm's marginal cost. [1] [2] The monopoly ensures a monopoly price exists when it establishes the quantity of the ...

  9. Rate-of-return regulation - Wikipedia

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    Rate-of-return regulation (also cost-based regulation) is a system for setting the prices charged by government-regulated monopolies, such as public utilities.It attempts to set prices at efficient (non-monopolistic, competitive) levels [1] equal to the efficient costs of production, plus a government-permitted rate of return on capital.