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We analyze and contrast the US and EU antitrust standards on mixed bundling and tying. We apply our analysis to the US … that there are differences between the EC and US antitrust law on the choice of the relevant analogy for bundled rebates …
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contract. I find that the standard proposed by the Antitrust Modernization Commission is likely to result in many cases of …
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I discuss the impact of tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on consumer surplus in the affected markets. I show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on the basis of efficiency typically fails....
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-consumer price discrimination; and (iii) inter-product price discrimination, and assess the antitrust liability that these practices … may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …
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We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …
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We discuss salient economic aspects of the Internet, including the possible abolition of net neutrality by local broadband access networks as well as potential incompatibilities and degradation of connectivity in the Internet backbone.
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We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … the patented invention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunize a patent holder from antitrust … antitrust principles, courts have found that monopolists could be liable for unlawfully extending their monopoly positions into …
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This paper discusses how antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …
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There is an evolution in the process used by standards-development organizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standards development activity (SDA) for information and communications technology (ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typically involving the...
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Our study extends the empirical literature on whether vertical restraints are anticompetitive. We focus on exclusive contracting in platform markets, which feature indirect network effects and thus are susceptible to applications barriers to entry. Theory suggests that exclusive contracts in...
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