market power
monopoly power

A company that is very pivotal can be said to have a high market power.

"What possible reason could there be except to obtain market power?"

The time had finally come to exercise market power and take profits.

American Motors did not have the deep resources and market power.

This is known as the market power theory of advertising.

Market power means that the firm has control over the terms and conditions of exchange.

A company must have some degree of market power to practice price discrimination.

They, in turn, use their market power to try to keep the prices paid to farmers low.

On this front, Microsoft may be in the best position to use its market power to influence technology's future.

"The very big players are using their market power to gain dominance."

The firm is granted market power by a public authority.

These employers are using their market power to control rising health care costs.

But they could use that market power just to jack up prices, resulting in no better situation.

Competition policy is the device already in place to combat market power.

It also can play a crucial role in the development or acquisition of market power.

Market power is a company's ability to increase prices without losing all its customers.

Any company that has market power can engage in price discrimination.

Increasing returns to scale are another important source of market power.

Concentration ratios are the most common measures of market power.

Finally government created barriers to entry can be a source of market power.

The men take advantage of their market power to become polygamous.

Without market power a company cannot charge more than the market price.

A rule telling someone he may not do business with some firm believed to have market power is unlikely to make the person better off.

Acquisition has been increasing because it is a way to achieve greater market power.