Evaluate issues relating to market concentration, oligopoly, vertically- and horizontally-integrated firms, and market-dominating firms, in relation to your final project topic and research question/thesis. Accordingly, your paper will likely inform, and may be used in part to address the following requirement of the final project assignment.
In one segment, assess issues pertaining to market competition, which include market concentration, dominance of powerful firms, oligopoly, or other competition-relevant factors as these relate to your topic. (Your Week 7 assignment may serve as a resource or first draft for this item.)
In your paper,
identify at least one issue relating to your project topic that involves market concentration, monopolistic or oligopolistic competition, market domination by one or more large firms, or tendencies toward merger and acquisition activity in a media market.
Assess the implications of your selected issue from an economic perspective relating to profits, financial viability, product and service markets, innovation, technical change, and/or other economic factors.
Assess your issue from a political economy perspective relating the market power and political power of firms to the public interest, the public sphere, or democratic institutions.
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