Vinod Jain is an expert in global and digital business, former business professor, consultant, speaker, and author of Global Meets Digital. Michael Porter's Five Forces model is a widely accepted ...

Perfect competition is a theoretical model with many buyers and sellers offering identical products. In this model, firms cannot influence prices and make zero long-term profit due to free entry and ...

Texas’ energy debacle during this past winter has led to a great deal of introspection regarding which energy market structure is the most appropriate. Most analysts would agree that energy market ...

Retail competition enables end-users—residential, commercial, and industrial customers—to choose their electricity supplier and related services. This usually fosters competitive pricing, diverse ...

Monopolistic competition features many businesses offering similar, differentiated products. This market structure benefits both consumers with varied choices and businesses via low entry barriers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year proposed four new rules that would reform securities market structure, a package that Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough ...

The energy market has fierce critics and supporters, but new legislation could have a big impact on how much residents pay for power. Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, ...

My most recent article failed to fully explain my idea of the contribution of financial futures to the evolution of financial market structure. It is easy to misinterpret that article as an argument ...