| With limited competition, or oligopolies, the various players within a particular industry will most likely have different cost structures. |
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| Shareholders are wanting higher returns from companies in mature markets or in cosy duopolies or oligopolies. |
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| This would be a direct challenge to the market power of established oligopolies. |
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| What drives our economy to switch from a period of innovation to oligopolies and lock ins? |
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| ManufacturingCo competes in internationalised oligopolies in its core power systems businesses. |
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| But without the proper rules, healthy capitalist markets turn into sluggish oligopolies, and that is what's happening in media today. |
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| Mr Rapkay, you may be sure that nobody in this Chamber wants monopolies or oligopolies in the market. |
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| And as long as these oligopolies are not dismantled, we need specific policies in sectoral renewables and so on. |
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| Old rules were based upon an old market structure that assumed network scarcity and the existence of natural monopolies or regulated oligopolies. |
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| If public monopolies are turned into private oligopolies, we will have achieved little. |
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| There is too much short-term speculation on this very special market, shaped by a cartel and oligopolies. |
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| Anti-competitive monopolies or oligopolies have at times led to high prices and poor service for ordinary citizens. |
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| So Europe was apparently invented with the sole purpose of promoting a handful of oligopolies! |
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| Hospitals have local oligopolies or even monopolies, especially after a recent wave of consolidation, so price competition is rare. |
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| The fact is that the world markets are dominated by cartels and oligopolies. |
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| I am thinking of the postal services and the risk that oligopolies will form, and another example is telecommunications. |
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| It is a big victory for the energy oligopolies and it is a defeat for consumers in Europe. |
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| We also need a much more stringent merger policy against these oligopolies which are coming onto the market. |
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| How does the Commission envisage regulating the power of the European oligopolies? |
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| The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies. |
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| Anyone who knows anything about neoclassical microeconomics knows that consumers are at the mercy of privately-owned monopolies and oligopolies due to the lack of competition. |
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| Mr Jacob Rocha says one of the main aims of President Enrique Peña Nieto's constitutional reforms is to weaken the dominance of oligopolies, so that prices of banking services, gas, electricity and the internet fall. |
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| It suggests that the liberalisation of certain markets has led to the good old public monopolies being replaced by private oligopolies, thus taking away the benefits without creating any added value for consumers. |
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| Moreover, as regards competition, what we are witnessing is more a powerful trend towards concentrations of companies and the establishment of a market of oligopolies and cartels rather than of a genuinely competitive market. |
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| You seek to extend the definition of companies' economically dominant position' to cover markets that are oligopolies, no matter when the merger comes about. |
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| In particular, in the areas of agriculture and agribusiness, it led to the emergence of private and foreign-owned oligopolies to the detriment of the majority of national producers. |
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| Acquisitions are reducing the footprint of independent retailers in Canada, which will result in regional oligopolies for the major agri-businesses. |
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| It may seem paradoxical, but unfettered market competition tends to naturally degenerate into market oligopolies. |
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| By restricting an operator's ability to exploit the current national oligopolies, the European commissioner hopes to urge operators to cooperate. |
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| Today, the Middle East's energy route map is changing despite Iran, weapons and money-laundering oligopolies. |
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| Essential goods and services that should be universally available at the lowest possible cost are now being provided by private companies operating monopolies or oligopolies. |
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| Does sustaining market competition mean ensuring that all markets have multiple providers, or allowing the outcome of competition to lead to the dominance of oligopolies? |
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| Through market concentration and the rise of food oligopolies that flood markets with cheap, unhealthy, ultra-processed products, in addition to fast food and soft drinks. |
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| He also said the party is unwittingly playing into the hands Indian oligopolies who were opposing FDI in retail so that they could have a monopoly. |
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| Strengthening of state institutions and stronger regulation is the way to overcome problems with the oligarchy and oligopolies, stated rightist leader Ivan Kostov. |
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| Oligopolies also make it far harder for small-to-medium sized businesses to obtain the credit they need to run and expand their businesses. |
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| Oligopolies in national markets make it difficult to consolidate. |
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