ABSTRACT
Monopoly can be understood in very simple term meaning a market which has only one seller and there are no close substitutes for that seller’s product or service. Sometimes the term “monopoly” is technically referred to the market itself but usually it is referred to the seller who has created monopoly in the market. The single seller is otherwise called as “monopolist”. Monopoly to be really effective in the market should practically have no substitutes for the product or service at all and also there should be no threat of the entry of a competitor into the market. This gives the monopolist a perfect control over the pricing of the product or service. Monopolies are a result of having barriers to entry that inhibit other company’s
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As such there are different types of monopoly market, which could be listed as below;
• Perfect monopoly:
Perfect monopoly is also known as absolute monopoly. Here there is just one seller for a product with absolutely no substitutes. There is zero level of competition. However such monopoly is a very rare case.
• Imperfect Monopoly:
The other terms used to refer imperfect monopoly are relative monopoly, simple or limited monopoly. Here there is a single sellerwith no close substitutes. However, the product may have a remote substitute. As such there could be fear of competition to some extent.
• Private Monopoly:
Private monopoly is a situation where in the production is owned, controlled and managed by an individual, private body or an organization.
• Public Monopoly:
When the government owns and controls the production it is called as public monopoly. Government holds the power of control. As it is welfare and service oriented it is also called as 'Welfare Monopoly' e.g. Railways, Defense, postal service
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As such the seller is at the liberty to quote the price he feels right. Most of the times the seller charges higher price for the product as he knows his products are produced exclusively by him.
• Consumer exploitation: as there is very little or no completion in a monopolist market, consumers tends to get exploited in terms of higher price, substandard or low quality goods etc. since the consumers have no option but to buy the products offered by the seller.
• Customer dissatisfaction: higher price for the product, low quality goods or services, lack of choice among products leaves the customers dissatisfied.
• Price discrimination: monopoly firms sometimes tend to practice price discrimination by charging different prices to different customers.
• Inferior goods and services: the monopoly firms may end up producing inferior quality goods and services as he very well knows he is the sole producer of the product and the customers would buy it no matter whether the quality is low or substandard.
• Restricted choice for the customers: monopoly does not give customers choice of goods and services as such there is restricted options for them to choose the
Monopoly is not just a board game people play for fun, monopolies became powerful and affected the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Monopolies are the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. Basically, monopolies are firms that have a lot of market power. They greatly controlled industries and played a role in the government, such as helping president President Benjamin Harrison. Monopolies dominated their own industries and were huge for the industrial period in the United States.
425 A monopoly is the total control of a type of industry by one person or one company. What is a holding company? Pg.426 A holding company is a company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies.
It may be unfair for a company not to have fair game or competition for the products that it produces. John D. Rockefeller from the Standard Oil company had raised the prices for oil too high. The standard oil's monopoly effected other American businesses both in productivity and financially. Rockefeller
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Furthermore, the monopolies got rid of the competition so there was no competitive price point. This was not fair for the commoner because the businesses could change the cost of their products and people would have to pay what they charged. The United States has tried to remove all of the monopolies starting with President Theodore Roosevelt. Today there are practically no monopolies in the United States, but in two-thousand four Microsoft was sued for a monopoly of their product Microsoft Word, this was a very rare
Some of the ways Monopolies because monopolies were through both horizontal and vertical integration, These two processes were the foundation of Industrial businesses like the Standard oil company led by Rockefeller and Carnegie steel, it allowed these power houses to control the amount of competition they had and how much it cost. These companies would have the reduced processing price because they set the price then sold it at a cheaper price, putting other businesses in shambles, An example of this is in (Doc H). This apparent genius of a process made it so people could only buy their product from them, it did allow for them to fix prices for items like food, fuel.(Doc A) this did allow for a sort of comfortable lifestyle that was defined as American consumerism. Through corporations like sears in the 1870s people were able to buy luxuries through this new affordable lifestyle. (Doc I).
Even further, these robber barons would often ruthlessly eradicate competition by buying out other companies to establish monopolies through the horizontal and vertical integration of production and product.
In the early 1900’s, the United States’ economy was dominated by monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt, the president at that time, earned the nickname “trust buster”; he made it his mission to prosecute the monopolies of the time; implementing the “square deal”. Theodore Roosevelt went after the Northern Securities Company, formed by J.P. Morgan, J. Hill, and E.H. Harriman. In an era of technological advances and milestones, the formation of new monopolies is a new reality.
Threat of new entrants refers to new companies in the retail industry. Customers may switch to other grocery stores. The entrance for the grocery industry is relatively low. Therefore, threat of new entrants is a major factor that affects the performance of
Like many people around have you spent your childhood thinking about ways to own each and every building and hotel provided in the game Monopoly? The original board game has come again with more attractive features and interesting game play. The game is one of the master pieces created by the company Electronic Arts. Monopoly is a game that certainly requires your brain and your intelligence to succeed and enjoy it completely. Do you remember the ‘Go’ printed on the cardboard where you always stood quite anxiously waiting for your turn to run and take a ride on the Rail Road.
Matthew, The theory of monopoly describes a market in which only one organization finds it profitable to produce (Mosca, 2008). Consequently, a new organization that wishes to enter the dog spa and resort market must enter on a large scale to keep their costs as low as the large-scale organizations already in operation (Thomas & Maurice, 2010). In such situations like this economy of scale would create a barrier to entry (Thomas & Maurice, 2010). The dog spa and resort would require licensing, therefore creating a government barrier of entry for other organizations to enter the market (Thomas & Maurice, 2010).
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The oligopoly market is set up in a way so that competitors can survive because each is unique and there are so few competitors that they are virtually indispensable even if some ethics atrocity
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