How much price competition? : the prerequisites of an effective Canadian competition policy /

Milton Moore, who calls this inquiry into an effective Canadian competition policy "a polite polemic," challenges the assumptions upon which combines legislation is based and questions the manner in which free enterprise operates in Canada. He addresses himself, not to the academic economi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Albert Milton, 1918-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1970.
Temas:
Competition > Canada.
Oligopolies.
Prices > Canada.
Industrial policy > Canada.
Antitrust law > Canada.
Trade regulation > Canada.
Concurrence > Canada.
Commerce > Réglementation > Canada.
Oligopoles.
Prix > Canada.
Politique industrielle > Canada.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Trade regulation.
Antitrust law.
Competition.
Industrial policy.
Prices.
Canada.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The State of Competition
  • The Pure-Competition Industries
  • The Nature of Oligopoly
  • Oligopolies with Ease of Entry
  • Oligopoly, Barriers to Entry, Homogeneous Product
  • The Many Forms of Price Discrimination
  • Differentiated Product Oligopolies with Barriers to Entry
  • Oligopoly: The Canadian Variant
  • Limited Monopoly
  • Pure Monopoly
  • Summary: The State of Competition
  • 2. Economic Wastes Attributable to Imperfect Competition
  • THE ANALYTICAL MODEL
  • Criteria of Waste
  • The Consumers' Sovereignty RuleThe Reference Model
  • Résumé of the Argument
  • FORMS OF ECONOMIC WASTE
  • Diseconomies of Scale
  • Waste Due to Excess Plant Capacity
  • Wastes in Sales Promotion
  • Chronic Excess Capacity in Retailing
  • 3. The Effects of the Present Law
  • PRESUMED INTENT
  • PROHIBITED PRACTICES
  • Combinations, Notably Price Agreements
  • The Exclusion of Sales in Foreign Markets
  • Monopoly by Merger
  • Monopoly Behaviour
  • Price Discrimination
  • Predatory Pricing
  • Misleading Advertising concerning Prices
  • Resale Price MaintenanceConsignment Selling
  • Other Trade Practices
  • SUMMARIES OF INTENT AND EFFECTS
  • Intent
  • Effects
  • 4. Analysis of the Issues
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS
  • Assumed Objectives
  • Competition Policy and International Trade
  • CONFRONTING THE ISSUES
  • The Conflicts of Interest between Consumers and Producers
  • The Status of the Traditional Rights of Companies
  • Are Downward Flexible Prices Indispensable?
  • Mutual Dependence versus Formal Collusion
  • Setting Prices Independently
  • The General versus the Case-by-Case ApproachRefusal to Sell
  • Regional Price Discrimination to Meet Competition
  • Predatory Pricing
  • Delivered Price Systems
  • Price Discrimination on Sales to Firms which Compete with Each Other
  • Price Discrimination: Sales to Consumers
  • Horizontal Mergers
  • Vertical Integration of Production
  • Conglomerate Mergers
  • The Advertising Dilemma
  • Excessive Ease of Entry
  • MEANS TO THE ENDS
  • The Regulations
  • Possible Gains
  • Notes
  • Index
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  • D
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