Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

Rick Schifter paints a distorted portrait of the relevance of private equity to the recovery of the airline industry (“Why Airlines Are Flying High,” op-ed, Feb. 4). In the 25 years after the 1978 ...

In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and ...

The five largest research publishers (a group that changes a bit by discipline) started publishing half of academic papers in 2006, up from 30 percent in 1996 and 20 percent in 1973, according to new ...

Say goodbye to the mom-and-pop wind power operation. With giants like Siemens and General Electric edging out smaller companies the new energy oligopoly looks much like the old one. As the wind power ...