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Not necessarily. If a company has "market power", this would mean that they have more market share than other companies in the industry. If this company tried to significantly increase prices, they can very quickly lose their market power to competitors (assuming that the competitors leave their prices relatively the same) coming in and taking away customers with lower prices.

Another rule of thumb is that the more profitable your business is, the more competitive it will become. Others will see that there is money to be made and will join in the market to steal customers away from you.

Just because you are a market leader doesn't mean you can jack up your prices and still continue to be a market leader.

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