The bigger you are, the easier it gets. This is the main idea behind “economies of scale,” an economic concept that describes how larger companies become more efficient and protect their market ...

Investors can evaluate economies of scale to determine if a company can increase profitability and stay competitive as it grows. This happens when a company reduces production costs by producing more ...

Lately, we have read about mega-scale hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) nearly every week. With M&A activity at the highest level since 2020 and average seller size continuing to trend upward, ...

Data Crunch: Does size matter? ClearGlass’s Chris Sier digs into the asset classes that offer economies of scales to large or consolidated investors, and explores the possibility that size creates a ...

Price Wars Periodically, Morningstar publishes a study entitled Global Investor Experience, which evaluates the quality of the world's mutual fund marketplaces. The latest version of the report, ...

Whether depository institutions can achieve economies of scale, that is, lower their average costs by increasing their sizes, has been a subject of great interest and importance to economists, ...

What advocates of antitrust reform miss, however, is that the development of technology products for consumers is dependent on considerable investment in research and development (R&D). Breaking up ...

Ondrej Dostal, a Czech member of the European Parliament, told Xinhua that while Europe has a solid research base, it often struggles to convert innovations from the lab to mass production, where ...