Anti-Competitive Behaviour

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Anti-Competitive Behaviour

Strategies designed to limit the degree of competition inside a market and reinforce the monopoly power of established businesses.

In the News Teaching Activity – Is Live Nation-Ticketmaster abusing its monopoly power? (Apr 2026)

27th April 2026
Micro Case Study: Apple

Topical case studies
Micro Case Study: Amazon

Topical case studies
In the News Teaching Activity – Should Netflix be allowed to acquire Warner Bros? (Dec 2025)

11th December 2025
What is meant by market power?

Study Notes
Search and Destroy? How Google’s Monopoly Faces a Legal Overhaul

21st November 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Oasis tickets & surge pricing (Sept 2024)

9th September 2024
Profits Over People: The Economic Impact of Monopolies and Exploitation

11th August 2024
IB Economics - Abuse of Monopoly Power

Study Notes
In the News Teaching Activity – are pet owners being ripped off at the vets? (Mar 2024)

21st March 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Apple overtakes Samsung in the global smartphone market (Jan 2024)

25th January 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Lack of competition in the baby milk formula market is adding to the cost-of-living crisis (Dec 2023)

4th December 2023
CMA launches probe into prices of baby formula

29th November 2023
In the News Teaching Activity – the CMA investigates the UK’s cloud computing market (Oct 2023)

12th October 2023
4.1.5.6 Monopoly and Monopoly Power (AQA A Level Economics Teaching Powerpoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
CMA warns against supermarket use of land banks

13th June 2023
Monopoly Power in UK Financial Markets - Does it Matter?

Study Notes
Market Power - OFCOM investigates mobile phone and broadband suppliers over pricing

13th February 2023
Pfizer and Flynn fined £70m for price fixing a life-saving epilepsy drug

21st July 2022
Economics of Monopoly (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Oligopoly (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Anti-competitive behaviour - CMA fines pharma firm over pricing of crucial thyroid drug

29th July 2021
Anti-competitive behaviour - UK drug companies fined £260m for inflating prices for NHS

15th July 2021
Competition Policy - Biden signs anti-monopoly executive order

17th July 2021
Water nationalisation - should England's water monopolies be nationalised?

16th July 2021
Competition economics - Google fined €220m in France over advertising abuse

9th June 2021
Monopoly Power - Selection of Revision MCQs

Practice Exam Questions
Vertical restraint and monopoly power

2nd October 2016
Is fraud the business model of the prescription drug industry?

20th December 2016
Secondary ticket markets - blessing or curse for consumers?

19th December 2016
Information Economics and Car Service Costs

2nd March 2017
Anti-competitive behaviour in market for hydrocortisone tablets

4th March 2017
Monopoly and Anti-Competitive Behaviour - Key Definitions

Study Notes
Monopoly Power in Markets

Topic Videos
Competition Policy

Teaching PowerPoints
Price Capping in Regulated Markets - 2021 Revision Update

Topic Videos
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) intervenes in Viagogo's takeover of StubHub

2nd February 2021
Monopolistic Markets - Revision Playlist

Topic Videos
Barriers to Entry and Market Power

Topic Videos
What is market power?

Topic Videos
CMA argues that Google and Facebook have too much market power

3rd July 2020
Monopoly (Online Lesson)

Online Lessons
Fender fined £4.5m for preventing online discounts

23rd January 2020
CMA probes Amazon over plan to buy Deliveroo stake

28th December 2019
Competition Policy: Preston-to-Scotland rail fares capped

6th December 2019
Horizontal integration: Viagogo buys rival StubHub in $4bn deal

25th November 2019
Essay Plan: Limits on Monopoly Power

Topic Videos
Advantages and Disadvantages of Monopoly Power

Topic Videos
Competition Policy - Specific Examples for Exams

Topic Videos
Competition and Contestability

Topic Videos
Exam Answer: Predatory Pricing

Study Notes
Funeral charges under the competition microscope

5th December 2018
Imperfect Competition - Key Concept Pairs

Study Notes
Should the monopoly power of the tech titans be broken up?

10th September 2018
Long Read: Do companies have too much monopoly power?

27th July 2018
Oligopoly and Collusion (Revision Essay Plan)

Practice Exam Questions
CMA to investigate funeral price fixing

1st June 2018
Monopoly Power (MCQ Revision Questions)

Practice Exam Questions
Monopoly Power and Economic Welfare

Topic Videos
Hotel booking sites to be investigated

27th October 2017
Is the UK too tolerant of monopolies?

15th October 2017
GAFA Market Power continues to Grow

20th September 2017
Alphabet (Google) profits shrink after EU fine

25th July 2017
Record fine for Google in anti-trust case

28th June 2017
A Model Example of Collusion!

25th May 2016
Recent mergers examples

17th May 2016
Google accused of anti-competitive behaviour in the app industry

20th April 2016
GSK hit by fine for anti-competitive behaviour

12th February 2016
Royal Mail in the dock over delivery charges

29th July 2015
Google Rejects EU Competition Probe

28th August 2015
Monopoly and Welfare: Over-pricing for school uniforms

16th October 2015

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