{"title":"The Ugly Monopoly Theory: The Average-Cost Pricing Tyranny","authors":"Hak Choi","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2456525","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper explains why monopolists do not necessarily obtain profit. It also reveals the true picture of average cost pricing. It concludes that protected businesses must eventually become both stupid and wasteful, and that state-owned monopolists are the ugliest one.","PeriodicalId":119086,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Institutions & Transition Economics: Firm Governance (Topic)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ERN: Other Institutions & Transition Economics: Firm Governance (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2456525","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper explains why monopolists do not necessarily obtain profit. It also reveals the true picture of average cost pricing. It concludes that protected businesses must eventually become both stupid and wasteful, and that state-owned monopolists are the ugliest one.