A Poke In The Eye
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- Brazil Dredging Under Pressure. // DPC: Dredging & Port Construction;Feb2007, p4
The article reports on the views of Paranagu� Port Authority's president Eduardo Requi�o about expensive dredging operations of companies during the International Conference of Port Cities in Australia. Requi�o berated the expensive dredging costs of Brazilian companies compared to that of...
- Bad Boys In Brazil? // DPC: Dredging & Port Construction;Oct2006, p4
The article reports on the plan of Eduardo Requiao, president of Paranagua and Antonia Port Authority, to set up a state-controlled dredging firm Companhia Paranaense de Dragagam in Brazil. The said plan aims to create a new company to handle the dredging requirements and offer its services to...
- Cartel Stability in a Delivered Pricing Oligopoly. Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki // Journal of Economics;Dec2005, Vol. 86 Issue 3, p259
Using the spatial price discrimination framework, the relationship between the locations of firms and their ability to collude is investigated. Gupta and Venkatu (2002) show that in a duopoly model agglomeration at one point is the most stable location. We find that agglomeration stabilizes the...
- INTERNATIONAL CARTELS. Klein, Julius // Foreign Affairs;Apr28, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p448
The international cartel movement is by no means a new phenomenon. There were several such organizations in a thriving condition some years before the war, including the Franco-Belgian group of plate glass manufacturers which was set up in 1904, the borax organizations, established in 1899 and...
- Mexico: Tackling The Drug Cartels -- An Unwinnable War? // Emerging Markets Monitor;1/12/2009, Vol. 14 Issue 38, p9
The article discusses the impact of drug-related violence on businesses and the economy of Mexico. It is noted that there is no assurance that President Felipe Calder�n will succeed against drug cartels in the country. It is forecasted that the business environment will suffer from more...
- Gas producers delay meeting over cartel. // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;6/6/2008, Vol. 52 Issue 23, p10
The article reports that Iran, Qatar and Russia have delayed a meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow, following a failure to agree on a charter and a set of common goals for a proposed new gas cartel. According to one energy executive, the three countries, which between them...
- Cartelization by Regulation. Laffont, Jean-Jacques; Tirole, Jean // Journal of Regulatory Economics;Jun1993, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p111
This paper formalizes and studies the argument of cartelization of industries through captured agencies. An agency can affect entry by a producer of a differentiated commodity in the market of a regulated natural monopoly through the manipulation of information it produces about the benefit of...
- Law cracks down on print's fixers. Chadwick, Philip // PrintWeek;11/7/2008, p30
The article discusses issues concerning the involvement of paper manufacturers in cartel activity. John Cassels, solicitor at Field Fisher Waterhouse, who has acted in several cartel-related cases says there is a desire to investigate and prosecute cartels and this has increased as of 2008. The...
- COMPETITION VERSUS COLLUSION: THE PARALLEL BEHAVIOUR IN THE ABSENCE OF THE SYMETRY ASSUMPTION. Dragoi, Ionut; Mosteanu, Tatiana; Romano, Oana Maria // Annals of the University of Oradea, Economic Science Series;2012, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p690
Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of competition authorities. A special case of cartel is the parallel behaviour in terms of price selling. This type of behaviour is difficult to assess and its analysis has not always conclusive results. For evaluating such behaviour the data...
