monopoly profit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmonopolyandprofit
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monopoly
noun[C or S]
uk/məˈnɒp.əl.i/us/məˈnɑː.pəl.i/
(an organization or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have ...
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profit
noun
uk/ˈprɒf.ɪt/us/ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofmonopolyandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The feudal elite attempted to form monopolies with various urban merchants hoping to profit by extracting some of the resultingmonopolyprofit.
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We intend to introduce the gas levy because there is a strong element of the economic rent of themonopolyprofitin those figures.
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The last point which he mentioned was in relation to their inability to exploit theirmonopolyprofit.
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The best way to nail it and to nailmonopolyprofitis to put on a price restriction.
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Suppose that a monopolist makes amonopolyprofit.
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This is creating amonopolyprofitfor the benefit of manufacturers, far beyond what is necessary in order to enable them to be recouped for initial capital expenditure.
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The new board is able to award itself performance bonuses based onmonopolyprofitand to take share options on share values which reflect thatmonopolyprofit.
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When this finally occurs, allmonopolyprofitassociated with producing and selling the product disappears, and the initial monopoly turns into a competitive industry.
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The economic profit obtained by a monopoly firm is referred to asmonopolyprofit.
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Economic theory predicts that unregulated private utilities set the price of their product at a level that allows to extract amonopolyprofit.
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Thus, it is generally accepted that patents should continue just long enough so that monopoly profits can repay the costs of development of the invention.
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Given competition in the market we would expect any supernormal or monopoly profits to be competed away and charges to reflect underlying costs.
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The concern was that firms were combining in order to capture monopoly profits.
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He characterizes the political world through analogies with economic phenomena: for example, market disequilibria, monopoly profits, entry barriers.
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Cartels and quasi-cartels (whether of big business or small) set prices, engaged in limiting production, and agreed to divide markets and classify consumers in order to realize amonopolyprofit.
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However, the onemonopolyprofittheorem is not true if customers in the monopoly good are stranded or poorly informed, or if the tied good has high fixed costs.
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Successful innovation breeds imitation, and the diffusion of innovation competes away monopoly profits until a new innovation begins the process again.
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The diagram to the right depicts an industry that initially starts out with a single firm that enjoys a monopoly and the initialmonopolyprofitthat comes with it.
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It is worthwhile for an abatement firm to buy the blueprint of a new abatement good if the present value of monopoly profits sufficiently covers its purchase cost.
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Because the market structure is monopolistic competition with free entry, the arbitrage condition implies that the present value of monopoly profits should equal the value of the patent.
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