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EUROPE: Open access operator Westbahn has described the European rolling stock market as an 'oligopoly' dominated by a few ...

We study an oligopoly model with asymmetric information and product differentiation. The analysis focuses on credit markets. We assume information to be asymmetric with respect to customer ...

With the inevitable consolidation of the DRAM business, something that Objective Analysis thoroughly analyzed and explained back in 2010, many have adopted the notion that the business would ...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. 1 Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of ...

Oligopoly: A market in which there are a limited number of providers providing the same service. Its political counterpart, oligarchy, means rule by a few. Is the cloud computing marketplace becoming ...

Many consumer advocates are worried that consolidation in the U.S. airline industry is creating an oligopoly. After AMR and US Airways close their merger next week, there will be just three network ...

The opposition questions the government’s willingness to hand over public contracts to private companies, given their track record in project failures. Recently appointed Cabinet Office Minister David ...