Showing 1 - 10 of 27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893932
This Article examines zero-price regulation, the major distinguishing feature of many modern network neutrality proposals. A zero-price rule prohibits a broadband Internet access provider from charging an application or content provider (collectively, content provider) to send information to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218899
Scholars and courts have long debated whether and when "parallel pricing" — adoption of the same price by every firm in a market — should be considered a violation of antitrust law. But there has been a comparative neglect of the importance of "parallel exclusion" — conduct, engaged in by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037324
Scholars and antitrust enforcers have raised concerns about anticompetitive effects that may arise when institutional investors hold substantial stakes in competing firms. Their concern rests on empirical evidence that such common concentrated ownership is associated with higher prices and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851909
This essay considers antitrust objections to recent settlements of intellectual property litigation. Part I examines the Google Book Search settlement, which resolves a copyright dispute between Google and a class of authors and publishers, including the creators of so-called orphan works. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188581
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000710934
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349426
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509917
A firm's discounting policies over a single product raise concerns analogous to exclusive dealing in two situations. First, the firm may offer conditional discounts structured in such a way as to induce customers to take most of their requirements for a given product from the defendant. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184459
The 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act provides that federal legislation generally, including the antitrust laws, is “applicable to the business of insurance [only] to the extent that such business is not regulated by State law.” The statute was enacted after United States v. South Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202648