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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 ...

This story was originally published on Oct. 4, 2018, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. As markets mature, they trend toward oligopoly or even outright monopoly. There ...

U.S. health insurers are “moving towards an oligopoly,” a process that this year’s health-care overhaul will accelerate, the investor-relations chief at WellPoint Inc. said Thursday. New regulations ...

Caves, R. E., and M. E. Porter. "Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares." Journal of Industrial Economics 26, no. 4 (June 1978): 289–313.

For any rider who uses Uber, Bolt (formerly Taxify) or Little Ride, you will notice that drivers from these three leading ride-hailing apps operate all these three apps. These three-leading ...

Behavioral research has found that consumers respond to variability in prices in addition to price levels. We show that this finding can explain why some firms vary their prices more frequently than ...

Big business - really big business - in Australia has always been the domain of oligopolies, with a smattering of duopolies thrown in as well. A couple of supermarket chains here, a few insurers there ...