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 ...

The global dominance of a small number of Chinese polysilicon companies has been highlighted by one of the giants, Xinte Energy, in its latest annual figures. The TBEA-owned business predicted further ...

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 ...

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 ...

The advent of the G-Cloud and a stricter procurement policy sought to break up the original Oligopoly a decade ago. But do the same rules apply to Oligopoly 2.0? This is a complex story to tackle. One ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Behind the scenes of the more obvious oligopolizations we see emerging in today's tech ...

In a pure exchange economy, agents have the possibility of behaving strategically by putting only a part of their initial endowments on the market. An oligopoly equilibrium is defined to be a Nash ...

Rick Schifter paints a distorted portrait of the relevance of private equity to the recovery of the airline industry (“Why Airlines Are Flying High,” op-ed, Feb. 4). In the 25 years after the 1978 ...

The five largest research publishers (a group that changes a bit by discipline) started publishing half of academic papers in 2006, up from 30 percent in 1996 and 20 percent in 1973, according to new ...

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 12: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) speaks during a CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience. (Photo by Amr Alfiky-Pool/Getty Images) On Friday, President Joe Biden ...

If President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions care about affordable health care, they will stop the Department of Justice from approving proposed mergers in the pharmaceutical industry.