Explore oligopolies, where a few firms dominate a market, influencing prices and outcomes. Learn about characteristics, ...

The Bank of Canada’s second in command called the country’s banking system an “oligopoly,” using the sector as a key example ...

As markets mature, they trend toward oligopoly or even outright monopoly. There isn’t much difference, because an oligopoly has several members instead of just one. Examples include electric power ...

Editor's NoteFinance is difficult. Confusing terms and complex backstories are all tangled together. Sometimes, you need to learn dozens of concepts just to understand a single word. Yet finance is ...

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 ...

Fidelity National Financial Inc. chief executive officer Alan Stinson said the declining number of companies selling title insurance has created an oligopoly. The limited competition allows the ...

Finally, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is starting to probe the disturbing return to consulting by the Big Four accounting firms. Just 11 years after the enactment of the ...

Game theory has long served as a cornerstone in understanding competitive strategies in markets where few firms operate. In particular, duopoly and oligopoly frameworks illustrate how firms’ strategic ...

The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 61, No. 4 (December 2013), pp. 845-876 (32 pages) By using general information structures and precision criteria based on the dispersion of conditional ...

Robinhood, the stock trading app formerly popular with millennials, is facing another class-action suit, following its recent temporary suspension of purchases of GameStop and other “meme-stocks” ...

Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes”—industry speak for the initial olfactory experience—at SIMPPAR, the annual fragrance-ingredient expo held this ...