“In both nations, the backbone service market is an oligopoly with dominant incumbents, so we rate them even.”

“Industry consolidation and a trend toward market oligopoly have also marked the evolutionary paths of numerous other industries.”

“They are the side effects of a music oligopoly that exercises its international political power with an iron fist.”

“One oligopolist can move markets in the short run but usually pays a heavy financial price in the longer run.”

“What other ways can an oligopolist legally and ethically be aware of its competitors?”

“If an oligopolist decreases his price even slightly, competitors are likely to do the same in order to avoid losing business.”

“We show that there exists a time-independent tax rule that guides polluting oligopolists to achieve the socially optimum production path.”

“Explicit pricing agreements are illegal, so oligopolists must depend on tacit understandings to maintain pricing discipline.”

“We derive corrective tax rules when firms are oligopolists whose production processes generate emissions that add to a stock of pollution that accumulates over time.”

“Shareholders are wanting higher returns from companies in mature markets or in cosy duopolies or oligopolies.”

“What drives our economy to switch from a period of innovation to oligopolies and lock ins?”

“But without the proper rules, healthy capitalist markets turn into sluggish oligopolies, and that is what's happening in media today.”