But the extra competition they bring hits market share for companies used to cosy national monopolies.
These tend to be local monopolies that have far greater leverage to raise prices with insurers.
They were talking about free trade and breaking monopolies a hundred years before Adam Smith.
Many Bulgarians remain deeply unhappy over high energy costs, power monopolies, low living standards and corruption.
Import-export monopolies of the type seen under Suharto in Indonesia had been dismantled in the Philippines.
They were talking about free trade and breaking monopolies 100 years before Adam Smith.
The OECD estimates that these monopolies increase basic costs for Mexican families by some 40 percent.
In the United States, where some states hold gambling monopolies, the figure is 9.2%.
These were sleeker versions of the clunky ones being manufactured by state-owned monopolies back home.
As a result, the U.S. government offers special monopolies for drugs that treat orphan diseases.
The states and the feds should properly deregulate this vital industry, primarily by removing territorial monopolies.
Does it also reflect natural monopolies that these companies have created rather than innovation power?
And economists have long been wary of monopolies because of the potential for perverse effects.
An aversion to competition helps to explain why monopolies continue to dominate the economy.
Copying was almost entirely done in large batches making temporary monopolies efficient and natural.
The Economist would not approve of granting monopolies to other businesses through monopoly-conferring licences.
That will alleviate competition in a notoriously cut-throat business, and perhaps even create some local monopolies.
RBOCs to open their local monopolies to competitors in exchange for access to long-distance services.
For digital distribution also blurs rather the geographic monopolies that many news organisations have had.
Some former state monopolies have been opened to competition: in alcohol and cement, for instance.
The market in Europe grew out of the deregulation of telecoms monopolies in the 1990s.
They should be breaking up domestic monopolies and radically reforming the tax code (see article).
The enduring message of his legacy is that monopolies are potentially (if not inherently) dangerous.
Because economies of scale are so important, clearing and settlement have tended to be quasi-monopolies.
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third-richest man in Mexico, disdains monopolies, dismisses minority shareholders and loves to trash the SEC.
Local governments were able to get what they wanted because they had local monopolies on police services.
She calls for a new law that would give drug companies extended monopolies for developing personalized medicines.
So even is copying other successful things: nothing like a bit of competition to stop monopolies arising.
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At home, his reforms sought to break up monopolies in order to restore competition among small companies.
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