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New drug price order may bring in monopoly - The New Indian Express - 2 views

    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Positive Externality, Merit Good
  • the new price regime would bring in monopoly in the sector.
    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Would it bring in a monopoly? - Evaluation
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  • While the earlier drug price control order covered only 74 bulk drugs and formulations
    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Note that maximum price level existed previously, but at a lower level.
  • As per the new price control order, the ceiling price of an essential drug will be the simple average of all brands with a market share of at least one per cent.
    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Decrease in demand temporarily as there is an expectation of decrease in price.
  • But, large companies will get a monopoly in pricing as they can manipulate price structure together.
    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Creating cartels to increase the price together - Oligopoly, few large firms dominating the market.
  • The experts in the industry point out that the small players in the field will eventually be wiped out when the new price control regime will come into effect.
    • Keisuke Ozeki
       
      Evaluation - Assumption made that the large firms are going to form cartels. If they don't, this will not occur. For the government to prevent this, they can create anti-cartel regulations
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BP, Shell raided over alleged price fixing | Business News | Business and Finance News ... - 2 views

  • crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels purchases and sales
    • Jin Seo
       
      Oil - one of the most inelastic good   
  • Statoil
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  • Platts
  • final consumers
  • colluded
  • prevented others from participating in the price assessment process, with a view to distorting published prices.
  • price fixing
  • cartels
    • Jin Seo
       
      formal collusion; cartels are group of competitive firms colluding together to act as a monopoly - why is a monopoly market structure attractive to producers? 
  • High oil prices are crushing families across Britain. Motorists are being taken for a very expensive ride.''
    • Jin Seo
       
      reasons why oligopolies are strictly monitored 
    • Jin Seo
       
      and also why oligopolies want to collude to become a monopoly 
  • Libor scandal
    • Jin Seo
       
      largest price fixing scandal
  • transparency.''
    • Jin Seo
       
      what would the evaluation contain?  - is it good or bad? (for consumers (benefits of colluding) and producers)  - BP oil competition = shows how having contest ability may be dangerous  - what can the governments do to stop collusion from happening? 
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    oil price fixing in the EU
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FICCI wants government to end monopoly of Coal India - Economic Times - 1 views

    • Ryo Sakai
       
      Why are monopolies bad? Other good suggestions such as monopolistic competition and perfect competition. 
    • Ryo Sakai
       
      Wants to end monopoly because they need more demand for coal
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    This will be my IA article
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BBC News - Samsung and LG fined by regulator for price fixing - 2 views

  • secret meetings in 2008 and 2009
  • The companies face a penalty of 44.6bn won ($39m; £25.2m), said the Fair Trade Commission (FTC).
    • Edward Pearson
       
      -highly illegal -inefficient, lack of competition 
  • "Their price rigging caused damage to many consumers by leading the prices of washing machines, flat-panel TVs and laptop computers to rise
    • Edward Pearson
       
      effectively monopoly - easier to controll prices -non-kinked demand curve
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  • South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics for conspiring to fix the prices of some appliances.
    • Edward Pearson
       
      explicit collusion - effectively becomes a monopoly
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    This could be my IA article - colluding oligopoly and monopoly
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Monopoly blamed for beef costing far more - The Standard - 1 views

  • Ng Fung Hong is to blame.
  • HK$3,097 per picul - around 60 kilograms - but local retailers have to fork out HK$4,690 per picul instead.
  • s a result, the unfair practice has resulted in the closure of four beef shops since Lunar New Year.
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  • By following what we did in the pork market, we will be able to gradually bring down the price of beef to a reasonable level
  • They would be making a profit of HK$516,750 every single day at the expense of our beef sellers
  • Critics were also quick to highlight the flaws in a government document released last week investigating the supply of fresh beef
  • "Besides failing to account for the price differences, the document does not say where it got the data from
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BP, Shell raided over alleged price fixing | News.com.au - 1 views

  • cartels
    • Jin Seo
       
      formal collusion; cartels are group of competitive firms colluding together to act as a monopoly - why is a monopoly market structure attractive to producers?
  • market manipulation
    • Jin Seo
       
      The act of artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security 
  • prices of crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels purchases and sales, potentially harming final consumers
    • Jin Seo
       
      oil- one of the most inelastic goods due to its high demand and usage in producing a lot of consumer goods 
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  • price fixing
    • Jin Seo
       
      price fixing = market manipulation 
  • BP, Shell and Norway's Statoil
    • Jin Seo
       
      what sort of market structure are they in? oligopoly and their tendency to collude = because they are profit maximizers 
  • European Commission
    • Jin Seo
       
      have monitoring for these companies due to high probabilities of collusion 
  • collude
  • prevented others from participating in the price assessment process
    • Jin Seo
       
      fairly high barriers to entry - one of the characteristics of an oligopoly 
  • the market vulnerable to abuse
  • Consumers need to know that the prices they pay for their energy or petrol are fair, transparent and not being manipulated by traders
  • High oil prices are crushing families across Britain
  • market transparency
    • Jin Seo
       
      EVALUATION: what would the evaluation contain?   - is it good or bad? (for consumers (benefits of colluding) and producers)   - BP oil competition = shows how having contest ability may be dangerous   - what can the governments do to stop collusion from happening? 
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    Price fixing of oil companies in the EU
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India Seeks Increase in Penalty on Coal India - WSJ.com - 2 views

    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Increase in Penalty Due to Decrease in supply.
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Title is nearly insignificant. Focusing on the decrease in supply to the consumer, and not the increase in penalty.
  • Coal India,
  • 80% of India's coal needs
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  • stagnation in coal output growth
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Growth of Firm is Decreasing, decrease in supply. Also meets 80 percent of coal needs, demand is high
  • environment clearances
  • supply shortfall
  • educed electricity generation
  • ndia's 200-gigawatt electricity generation capacity is coal-based,
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      They are a MONOPOLY- they rule more then 50% of they Coal Market in India
  • increased supply of coal
  • economic growth
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Although Economic Growth is Macro, it shows a strong correlation between the two.
  • The government earlier this year directed Coal India to sign pacts with the utilities that became operational after April 2009,
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      Government has Intervened- declaring that it will be a Monopoly after signing packs.
  • as was the case in the previous supply pacts.
  • 14 power producers out of a total of about 40 utilities that are likely to sign pacts.
    • Nich Fabrici
       
      MAXIMUM PRICE  SUBSIDIES?
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Microsoft posts first loss as public company - Business - Al Jazeera English - 1 views

  • Microsoft
    • Jin Seo
       
      Example of a real life monopoly 
    • Jin Seo
       
      Total cost > total revenue 
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  • net loss of $492m
  • profit of $5.87bn
  • $18bn
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    Microsoft first loss as a public company
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US complains about China import duties | News.com.au - 0 views

  • car makers have been affected by the tariffs
  • countries are allowed to impose tariffs to offset damage from subsidies and dumping
  • successfully challenged Chinese tariffs on high-tech steel products and has also disputed tariffs on chicken products.
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  • impose a tariff on US imports of low-grade Chinese tyres
  • anti-dumping
  • virtual monopoly
  • China says curbing rare earth exports is for environmental protection, not intended to help Chinese companies.
  • Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said the vehicle duties were legal
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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: New Electricity Tariff Takes Off Today - 1 views

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    This will be my IA 1
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