Potential Competition and Antitrust Analysis: Monopoly Profits Exceed Duopoly Profits

The Beer Store, Monopoly Profits and the Potential for Government Revenue: An Economic Analysis

In a recent study conducted for the Ontario Convenience Store Association I find evidence of significant average price differences in specific beer products between Ontario and Quebec, which I attribute to the near monopoly status enjoyed by The Beer Store (TBS). Back of the envelope calculations suggest the existence of significant profits enjoyed by TBS. In this paper, I study differences acr...

Will Open Access Compete Away Monopoly Profits in Journal Publishing?

Publishers of scholarly journals currently obtain most of their revenue from subscription fees charged to libraries and individual users. We call this the " reader-pays " pricing model. An alternative pricing method has recently emerged, in which publishers collect their revenue by charging significant publication fees to authors, and then supply their content over the internet, at no cost to r...

Profits, Layoffs and Priorities

This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, we categorize accounting, economic and ethically-based rationales that differ from the profitmaximizing recommendation...

Profits and Productivity

In this study we consider the linkage between productivity change and profit change. We develop an analytical framework in which profit change between one period and the next is decomposed into three sources: (i) a productivity change effect (which includes a technical change effect and an operating efficiency effect), (ii) an activity effect (which includes a product mix effect, a resource mix...

Profits and professionalism.