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A study measures the cost of lack of competition
How Italy’s notoriously uncompetitive pharmacies rip off new parents
A study measures the cost of lack of competition
What’s Italian for sticker shock? THAT COMPETITION keeps prices down is well known. But it is hard to measure by just how much, because prices vary for all sorts of reasons, from differences in labour costs and rents to taxes. Rising to the challenge is a new paper in The Economic Journal by Giacomo Calzolari, […]
Lithium giants feud over competition, brine in Chile’s Atacama Desert
Enlarge / A general view of Laguna Colorada located near the border with Chile, in the Uyuni salt flats, Bolivia. The Uyuni salt flats are estimated to contain 100 million tons of lithium, making it one of the largest global reserves of this mineral, according to state officials at the Bolivian Mining Corporation. (credit: MARTIN […]
Reds boss blasts ‘senseless’ UEFA competition
LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has taken aim at UEFA’s Nations League, labelling it “senseless”, after his side headed into the international break with a home draw against Premier League leaders Manchester City. Klopp and his City counterpart Pep Guardiola were satisfied with their team’s after a tight, tactical encounter which finished 0-0 at Anfield. But […]
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman shares his secret for fast growth and getting ahead of the competition
Shutterstock Startups can be just as risky as they are promising — 20% of small businesses fail in just their first year. But Reid Hoffman, venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, has a method for success that bucks tradition. “Blitzscaling,” as Hoffman calls it in his new book, means prioritizing speed over efficiency in the face […]
Sharp brings much-needed competition to mobile OLED display market
That super-sharp OLED display on the latest iPhone XS models comes courtesy of Samsung and LG. The rival Korean manufacturers were pretty much your only choice for the pricey phone screens, but that could be about to change. Apple’s LCD supplier Sharp is now jumping on the bandwagon with the release of its first OLED […]
DOJ: We will examine social media firms that “may be hurting competition”
Enlarge / Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg (left) and Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations’ use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) In the wake of testimony before a Senate committee hearing […]
Central bankers grapple with the changing nature of competition
RECENT visitors to Jackson Hole, a resort in the Teton Mountain range in Wyoming, were denied the usual scenic views by a shroud of smoke from recent forest fires. Disappointing, no doubt, for the tourists among them—but oddly fitting for the economic panjandrums attending the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium on August […]
BMW’s M2 Competition Ad Campaign Is Completely Ridiculous
You aren’t going to see a lot of televised commercials for the BMW M2 Competition, as it’s an enthusiast car of the highest magnitude. A thirty-second spot in the middle of a popular sitcom doesn’t provide adequate time to run through a laundry list of performance specs for car nerds, and the blanketed marketing approach wouldn’t […]
