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  2. Price discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Another example of price discrimination is intellectual property, enforced by law and by technology. In the market for DVDs, laws require DVD players to be designed and produced with hardware or software that prevents inexpensive copying or playing of content purchased legally elsewhere in the world at a lower price.

  3. Monopoly - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of price discrimination is to transfer consumer surplus to the producer. [46] Consumer surplus is the difference between the value of a good to a consumer and the price the consumer must pay in the market to purchase it. [47] Price discrimination is not limited to monopolies.

  4. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs.

  5. Market structure - Wikipedia

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    Example: Standard Oil (1870–1911)Under monopoly, monopoly firms can obtain excess profits through differential prices. According to the degree of price difference, price discrimination can be divided into three levels. [11] Natural monopoly, a monopoly in which economies of scale cause efficiency to increase continuously with the size of the ...

  6. Monopoly price - Wikipedia

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    A monopoly is a price maker, not a price taker, meaning that a monopoly has the power to set the market price. [ 14 ] The firm in monopoly is the market as it sets its price based on their circumstances of what best suits them.

  7. The Economics of Imperfect Competition - Wikipedia

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    Book V: Price Discrimination - This book explores the practice of price discrimination, where a single firm charges different prices for the same commodity. It discusses the concept of price discrimination and raises reflections on its desirability. Book VI: Monopsony - This book shifts the focus to the perspective of an individual buyer.

  8. 12 Most Famous Monopolies Of All Time

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    11. Thurn and Taxis Mail. The private company operated postal service back in the 1800s and enjoyed a monopoly on postal services. The company's dominance came to an end after Prussian victory ...

  9. Anti-competitive practices - Wikipedia

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    Dumping, also known as predatory pricing, is a commercial strategy for which a company sells a product at an aggressively low price in a competitive market at a loss.A company with large market share and the ability to temporarily sacrifice selling a product or service at below average cost can drive competitors out of the market, [1] after which the company would be free to raise prices for a ...