The unfortunate reality of the U.S. stock market is it is extremely complicated.  There are exchanges. Broker-dealers. Dark pools. High-frequency traders. Alternative trading systems. And all ...

Lei Ji, Juin-Jen Chang, Chien-Yu Huang, Unionization, Market Structure, and Economic Growth, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 82, No. 3 (January 2016), pp. 935-951 ...

How Does a Market Structure Positively or Negatively Affect a Firm?. How customers and competitors interact with your company's organization can have both positive and negative effects. Since ...

If you follow market structure closely, you’ll know that there are always lots of things that are seemingly in need of fixing. Our recent white paper includes 11 proposals designed to help ...

At the other extreme, a market with so many sellers that no one of them could affect the price - termed "perfect competition" - is the best because it minimizes the price paid by the buyer.

Some of the topics covered in this publication include: Energy & environmental issues, Petroleum matters (upstream & downstream), electricity markets, energy & developing countries, natural gas topics ...