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monopoly profit

the long-term ABOVE-NORMAL PROFIT accruing to a monopolist. See MONOPOLY.
Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005
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patent holder would secure an injunction and earn the monopoly profit.
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(2) Second, Bork viewed competitive harm as implausible because there was only a "single monopoly profit" that would be unaffected by the merger (except under rare circumstances).
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Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it can easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to.
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There exists no more an argument in justice, or a moral case, against such a monopolist making a monopoly profit than there is against anyone who decides that he will work no more than he finds worth his while.
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The FTC's usual concern is that by entering into these settlements the pioneer gets to keep its monopoly profit margins as a result of the cheaper generic's delayed entry in the market, and in return gives a percentage of these profits to the generic.
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Obviously, the leader invests earlier than the follower, so he can enjoy a monopoly profit for some time and occupy a large market share.
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What a static model refers to as monopoly profit is better seen in a dynamic setting as an indicator of the welfare gain that was produced by the innovation that provided the market share advantage to the seller.
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Furthermore, from equations (13)-(15) we can find how changes in parameter [alpha] can affect the pricing policy of a monopoly profit maximizer.
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As before, let the monopoly profit level be denoted by rim and the profit level associated with [P.sub.L] be [[PI].sub.L].
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Substituting [7] into [6], optimal monopoly profit can be expressed as:
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The results rule out the extreme model of collusion leading to joint monopoly profit maximization.
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