Price cartels.
"A price cartel is a group of companies that have a formal agreement to fix prices. Companies that form cartels operate within the same industry and, in theory, should be in competition with each other. By forming a cartel, the companies create monopoly power that can be used to increase profit...
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
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| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
[Mosman] :
iMinds,
℗♭2009.
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| Серия: |
Money (iMinds (Firm))
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=357949 |
| Резюме: |
"A price cartel is a group of companies that have a formal agreement to fix prices. Companies that form cartels operate within the same industry and, in theory, should be in competition with each other. By forming a cartel, the companies create monopoly power that can be used to increase profits. Where there is an informal rather than formal agreement to fix prices, it is called collusion. Both cases are anticompetitive and breach Antitrust and Competition law in most countries, though there are exceptions. Cartels often form when there is an oligopoly present in a market. A market with theoretically perfect competition is one that contains many small competing companies. The opposite of this ideal is a monopoly, where one large company controls the entire market. An oligopoly exists between these two extremes, though it is closer to a situation where a monopoly exists. It is where there are only a few large companies operating within a market"--Pub. website. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 24, 2011). |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (2 pages). |
| ISBN: |
9781921798931 1921798939 |