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Duopoly vs Duopsony - What's the difference?

duopoly | duopsony |

As nouns the difference between duopoly and duopsony

is that duopoly is a market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service while duopsony is an economic condition in which two buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.

duopoly

Noun

  • (economics) A market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.
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  • , year=2012 , date=June 29 , author=Kevin Mitchell , title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=In 2011, his spirit and body were shattered by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals. Last night, the stakes were just as high – even though the tournament is not out of the first week – because there is a creeping perception that the Federer-Nadal duopoly is slowly giving way under pressure from below. }}

    Derived terms

    * duopolist, duopolistic, duopolistically

    duopsony

    English

    Noun

    (duopsonies)
  • An economic condition in which two buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.
  • Derived terms

    * duopsonist, duopsonistic, duopsonistically