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Oligopoly

An oligopoly is a market dominated by a few producers, each of which has control over the market.

Micro Case Study: Tesco and Oligopoly

Topical case studies
UK Fuel Market: Rocket and Feather Pricing: A Case Study in Market Failure

19th March 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – How has Next benefited from the M&S cyber-attack? (Nov 2025)

6th November 2025
Six Market Structures to Revise for Exams (2025 Focus)

10th April 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – is Asda setting off a supermarket price war? (Mar 2025)

24th March 2025
The Baby Formula Price Trap: How Branding and Regulation Are Costing Parents

16th February 2025
Cartels in Construction? The Economic Costs of Rigged Contracts for Schools

14th December 2024
The Mobile Network Power Play: Vodafone and Three’s £16.5 billion Mega-Merger Explained

5th December 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – why Gen Z is paying for ‘forever games’ (Dec 2024)

5th December 2024
Why do many price-fixing cartels eventually collapse?

Study Notes
Oligopoly - Collusion

Study Notes
Un-bottling the Baby Formula Market: Why Competition Matters for Families

12th November 2024
Fuel for Thought - More Action Needed to Increase Competition in the UK Fuel Market

26th July 2024
Demergers: Breaking Up for Better Profits: Reckitt's Big Shake-Up

24th July 2024
Are the costs of developing a new drug as high as many pharma corporations argue?

26th April 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics (A) Theme 3 Knowledge Organiser Pack

Exam Support
AQA A-Level Economics - Year 13 Microeconomics Knowledge Organiser Pack

Exam Support
CMA to investigate anti-competitive behaviour among leading house builders

27th February 2024
Spring 2024 Economics Revision Livestreams

15th January 2024
Oligopoly - Explaining the Economics of Cartels I A Level and IB Economics

Topic Videos
Royal Mail losing market share in the contestable parcels industry

29th December 2023
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
In the News Teaching Activity – Sainsbury confident of a profitable Christmas (Nov 2023)

9th November 2023
In the News Teaching Activity – the CMA investigates the UK’s cloud computing market (Oct 2023)

12th October 2023
3.4.4 Oligopoly (Edexcel)

Study Notes
4.1.5.5 Oligopoly (AQA A Level Economics Teaching Powerpoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
3.4.4 Oligopoly - Introduction (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
What is the difference between collusive and non-collusive oligopoly?

Study Notes
In business economics, what is the difference between cooperation and collusion?

Study Notes
Oligopoly Pricing - Morrisons and M&S follow rivals to cut food prices

20th June 2023
Horizontal Integration - Mega Merger in UK Telecoms

14th June 2023
Oligopoly - Supermarkets investigated over "rocket and feather pricing"

17th May 2023
Industry Profile - UK Market for Streamed Video on Demand

15th May 2023
Quick Revision Blasts on Market Structures

4th May 2023
Tesco Cuts Milk Prices - Will other retailers follow?

13th April 2023
Updated Resources on Market Structures

13th April 2023
Collusion in Oligopoly - Ten construction firms fined total £60m

26th March 2023
Tesco cuts the value of Clubcard rewards scheme

21st March 2023
Business Economics - Non Price Competition between Cinemas (Oligopoly)

Topic Videos
Non-Price Competition in Imperfect Markets

Study Notes
Oligopoly - What is Tacit Collusion?

Study Notes
Supernormal Profits: Are UK Mobile and Broadband Firms ‘Lining Their Pockets’?

7th February 2023
What is Price Stickiness?

Study Notes
Who are Britain's Biggest Mortgage Lenders?

1st December 2022
Industry Profile: UK Broadband Market

Topic Videos
Industry Profile: Parcel Deliveries

Topic Videos
Industry Profile: UK Supermarket Industry

Topic Videos
Industry Profile: UK Cinema Industry

Topic Videos
Tesco Raises Prices for Meal Deals

22nd October 2022
Key Diagrams - The Kinked Demand Curve (Oligopoly)

Topic Videos
Key Diagrams - Game Theory Examples

Topic Videos
Key Diagrams - Advertising Spending and Business Profits

Topic Videos
Key Diagrams - Price Collusion in a Cartel (Oligopoly)

Topic Videos
RAC claims motorists are being ripped off by £5 million a day

6th January 2022
Oligopoly (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Market Structures (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Profits and Entry Barriers in Markets Explained

Topic Videos
Is Morrisons positioning itself as a deep discounter?

6th September 2016
Economists advise the football clubs! The failure of UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations

9th September 2016
Tease and Squeeze Pricing by the Energy Companies

10th September 2016
Oligopoly Price War - Asda Follows Morrisons

10th September 2016
Tesco dominates the UK ice-cream market

18th September 2016
Vodafone fined for breaches of consumer protection rules

26th October 2016
Do mergers and takeovers raise prices rather than efficiency?

30th October 2016
Ten Companies that dominate Global Brands!

6th November 2016
Kinked demand curve: Energy price freeze

1st December 2016
Secondary ticket markets - blessing or curse for consumers?

19th December 2016
Tesco Goes for External Growth with Booker Takeover

27th January 2017
Short Videos on Price Fixing

1st February 2017
Explaining High Drug Prices in the USA

4th February 2017
Energy Oligopoly and Profits of the Big Six

12th March 2017
Revenues and Profits in the UK Cinema Industry

Study Notes
Oligopoly Revision Quiz

Quizzes & Activities
Explaining Price and Output in a non-collusive Oligopoly

Study Notes
Oligopoly - The Potash Cartel

Study Notes
Oligopoly - Market Shares and Competition in the UK Food Grocery Industry

Study Notes
Oligopoly - The UK Market for Electricity and Gas Supplies

Study Notes
Monopoly and Anti-Competitive Behaviour - Key Definitions

Study Notes
Contestable Markets

Topic Videos
Oligopoly and Collusion

Teaching PowerPoints
Oligopoly - The Kinked Demand Curve

Teaching PowerPoints
Oligopoly and Game Theory

Teaching PowerPoints
Competition Policy

Teaching PowerPoints
The Kinked Demand Curve

Topic Videos
Non Price Competition in Oligopoly

Topic Videos
Monopoly Power in Markets - Applied Examples

Topic Videos
Collusion in an Oligopoly

Topic Videos
Oligopoly: Why do Cartels often Collapse?

Topic Videos
Oligopoly: Evaluating Costs and Benefits of Collusion

Topic Videos
Analysis Diagram: Price Fixing in a Cartel

Topic Videos
5 Minutes and 5 Key Points on Oligopoly

Topic Videos
Game Theory and Profits MCQ Revision Question

Practice Exam Questions
Barriers to Entry

Topic Videos
Price and Non-Price Competition in Oligopoly

Topic Videos
Contestable Oligopoly - Sainsbury’s takes on Aldi in supermarket price war

10th February 2021
Oligopoly (Online Lesson)

Online Lessons
Introduction to Market Structures (Online Lesson)

Online Lessons
Competition heats in contestable Spanish telecoms industry

15th June 2020
Takeovers - Clear The Deck Key Term Knowledge Activity

Quizzes & Activities
Key Micro Diagrams (Market Structures)

Topic Videos
Advantages and Disadvantages of Oligopoly

Topic Videos
Asda-Sainsbury Merger under threat from the CMA

Study Notes
Oligopoly - Why is insulin so expensive?

14th February 2019
Essay on Advertising and Economic Welfare

Exam Support
Essay on Oligopoly and Collusion

Exam Support
Price Wars in Oligopoly - Examples and Evaluation

Study Notes
Advertising in Oligopoly

Study Notes
Oligopoly and Examples of Price Fixing

Study Notes
Economics of an Energy (Fuel) Price Cap

Study Notes
Sneakernomics

30th December 2018
Why are economics textbooks so expensive?

29th November 2018
Economies of Ale - Changes to the UK Pub Industry

27th November 2018
Co-op joins the price war in the funeral industry

10th September 2018
Google fined €4.3bn for reducing consumer choice

19th July 2018
Understanding Imperfect Competition

Topic Videos
Oligopoly and Collusion (Revision Essay Plan)

Practice Exam Questions
What is Market Concentration?

Study Notes
Oligopoly - Game Theory Explained and Applied

Study Notes
Key Summary on Market Structures

Study Notes
Oligopoly - Kinked Demand Curve

Study Notes
Test 13: A Level Economics: MCQ Revision on Monopoly and Oligopoly

Practice Exam Questions
The Economics of Vinyl

20th April 2016
Revealed preference - motorists choose to pay sky-high motorway petrol prices

5th April 2018
What market structure best fits the music streaming market?

25th March 2018
The Universal Stylus Initiative - markets and complementary products

31st January 2018
Competitive Markets - Independent booksellers consider a purchasing union

30th January 2018
How airlines price flights

5th January 2018
Non-price competition - innovation and exclusivity from M&S

8th December 2017
Cinema Takeover: Cineworld buys Regal

5th December 2017
Oligopoly firms - "Concentration" activity

Quizzes & Activities
British Gas hikes electricity prices by 12.5%

2nd August 2017
Will other buyers bid against Amazon for Whole Foods?

20th June 2017
Collusion and Game Theory (Short Answers)

Topic Videos
Competition and Consumer Welfare (Essay Technique Video)

Exam Support
What do registered complaints tell us about competition in the Energy market?

1st September 2016
Contestable Markets - Amazon Launches Supermarket Deliveries

9th June 2016
Beyond the Bike lesson resource for returning AS students

25th May 2016
EU Blocks Takeover of O2 by Hutchinson

12th May 2016
Theory of the Firm Diagrams - quick in-class revision tool

10th May 2016
Fantasy Economics for AS and A2 students!

14th April 2016
Competition and Markets Authority Report on UK Energy Market (2016)

10th March 2016
Amazon and Morrisons strike deal - non-price competition in the supermarket market

29th February 2016
Should BT be broken up to stimulate competition?

26th February 2016
Cartels: The Quebec Maple Syrup Cartel

7th February 2016
Three-O2 Merger Plans Under Scrutiny

5th February 2016
Tesco scales back 24 hour opening in over 70 stores

29th January 2016
Possible Regulatory Capture? OFGEM and Keeping Secrets

28th January 2016
Small Is Beautiful - The Rise of Craft Brewing

1st January 2016
Price competition key to success in Supermarket market?

14th January 2016
Why is supermarket petrol in the UK cheaper than other brands?

7th January 2016
Who were the world's most innovative companies in 2015?

6th January 2016
China fines shipping firms for price fixing

28th December 2015
Divisions within OPEC as oil prices collapse below $40 a barrel

11th December 2015
Tobacco firms launch a legal challenge against plain packaging

10th December 2015
CPD: Theory of the firm

27th November 2015
Classroom Activity: The Oligopoly Game

2nd October 2012
UK Taxi Wars are Hotting Up

24th October 2014
Oligopoly - Recent Examples of Price Fixing Behaviour

31st January 2015
Non Price Competition & the Cost of a SuperBowl Advert

2nd February 2015
Pepsi and NBA strike a deal

14th April 2015
Concentration Ratio Pyramid - Lesson Activity

12th August 2015
Fermenting Nicely - The Rise of Microbreweries

31st August 2015
How discounters are beating the supermarkets

23rd September 2015
Non-price competition - the battle for fast recharging

17th November 2015
Pfizer and Allergan's $150bn merger

23rd November 2015