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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 ...

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 ...

I. Introduction, 437.--II. A jurisprudential hypothesis, 438.--III. The emphasis on form in the antitrust laws, 438.--IV. Significance of the stress upon form; the ...

In a major antitrust ruling, a federal judge in Boston has blocked the merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, saying the merger would hurt consumers. In his ruling, Judge William Young wrote, “The ...

Economy / Under-scrutinized monopolies—like the fire truck oligopoly—hinder municipal functions. Katrina vanden Heuvel It’s ...

So the mayor of Boston, channeling his inner Captain Renault, is shocked — shocked! — to find that Boston’s taxi industry is a rigged and pitiless racket. Why, until he read about it in The Boston ...

Donald Boudreaux (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 27) claims that the auto industry is not oligopolistic and thus Ralph Nader's conspiracy theory about auto manufacturers withholding technological ...