This chapter surveys the legal and economic literatures on the antitrust analysis of tying arrangements and exclusive … dealing contracts. We review the analytical framework applied under U.S. antitrust law to tying, bundling and exclusive …

For several decades antitrust courts were extremely hostile to exclusive dealing agreements, banning such contracts … characterized antitrust's attitude toward exclusive dealing contracts. Raising Rivals'Costs (RRC) theory, it is shown, filled the …. Those who embrace a purchaser welfare approach to antitrust have not explained how courts should go about balancing the …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …