Regulatory capture: related pages

Regulatory arbitrage
Financial engineering designed to evade regulation.
Cartel
A group of firms acting together to restrict prices. Most commonly, a group of producers agree not to sell below a given price to give themselves monopoly pricing power.
Oligopoly
Where an oligopoly exists, a few large suppliers dominate the market resulting in a high degree of market concentration.
Cross licensing
Exchange rights to patent portfolios, which reduces litigation and R & D costs, while simultaneously erecting barriers to entry.
Network effects
Effects which cause the value of a product to its consumers to increase if it is more widely used.
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