How much price competition? : the prerequisites of an effective Canadian competition policy /
Moore, Albert Milton, 1918-
How much price competition? : the prerequisites of an effective Canadian competition policy / Milton Moore. - Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1970. - 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- RÃ(c)sumÃ(c) 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I Jk -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- w -- z
9780773560628
Competition--Canada.
Oligopolies.
Prices--Canada.
Industrial policy--Canada.
Antitrust law--Canada.
Trade regulation--Canada.
Electronic Books.
HF1480 / .H696 1970
How much price competition? : the prerequisites of an effective Canadian competition policy / Milton Moore. - Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1970. - 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- RÃ(c)sumÃ(c) 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I Jk -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- w -- z
9780773560628
Competition--Canada.
Oligopolies.
Prices--Canada.
Industrial policy--Canada.
Antitrust law--Canada.
Trade regulation--Canada.
Electronic Books.
HF1480 / .H696 1970