And it's good for most networks, too, because their collective market power gives them a better outcome than if the cable and satellite distributors could exert their
oligopsony powers unchecked.
Oligopsony fed cattle pricing: did mandatory price reporting increase meatpacker market power?
It is interesting that
oligopsony power tends to be higher in 2011 than 2010 during peak hours: this can be explained with the threefold increase of renewable supply (mainly PV) that occurred in the same period, resulting in abundant supply with priority dispatching.
From the results it is concluded that technical inefficiency is highest where the market structure resembles monopsony and lowest where the market structure resembles
oligopsony.
In the immediate post-independence period, the global trading system remained highly inefficient, with advanced economies drawing on their technological edge to enjoy tremendous market powers--monopoly or oligopoly on the supply side, and monopsony or
oligopsony on the demand side.
The concentrated nature of education markets suggests two alternative models of teacher wage determination: the first is a classic
oligopsony model and the second is a rent-sharing model.
The alleged justification for these exemptions was the market structure of the farming industry and the monopsony or
oligopsony power of processing and marketing firms (86).
2008), "The Role of 'Integrated Production' Scheme in the New Fruit and Vegetable CMO: A Tool for Competitiveness, Sustainability or
Oligopsony by Large Retail Chains?
As in the traditional
oligopsony model, however, fertility centers accept reduced access to inputs in exchange for a lower purchase priceY' In other words, assuming that the marginal cost of any unit of a good is the price paid on all prior units, an oligopsonist will fail to purchase some units whose value to the oligopsonist exceeds their costs in order to cap the purchase price of prior units.
In such a context, the distribution layer enjoyed greater bargaining power with respect to the production layer in so far as the latter confronted, in many countries, a situation akin to monopsony or
oligopsony.
Thus buyer power arises from monopsony (one buyer) or
oligopsony (a few buyers), and is the mirror image of monopoly or oligopoly.
This effective global
oligopsony can strongly influence, and in fact participate in, the direction any development effort may take.
