Market Structure (Macro)

Too Much Vitamin C? (6/22/2006)

Legacy habit of central planning has led to antitrust charges against Chinese vitamin C oligopoly.

Keywords: antitrust, cartel, price fixing, regulation, vitamin C

Vitamin Inc. (3/22/2005)

Mature oligopoly with a few large producers of homogeneous commodities is driven to output and price fixing to increase their profit.

Keywords: antitrust, BASF, cartel, commodities, homogeneous products, Justice Department, lysine, oligopoly, price fixing, Rhone-Poulenc, Roche, vitamin