Examinations of market structure and effects show that excessive trade concentration usually reduces competition on the market. It coincides with a longer-term rise in the price level, while both smaller commercial and production firms and the consumers find themselves in a less favourable market and bargaining position, and negative social effects appear. Preventing these effects is in the fundamental interest of social and economic policy.
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