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Predatory Pricing as a Strategy to Weaken Competition
Predatory pricing is an anti-competitive strategy where a dominant firm sets the price of a product at an artificially low level, often below its own production costs, for a temporary period. The goal is to drive smaller competitors out of the market who cannot sustain the resulting losses. Once competition is eliminated, the dominant firm can raise its prices to monopoly levels to recoup its earlier losses and earn higher long-term profits.
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