Antitrust guidelines of the major jurisdictions, to a greater or lesser degree of detail, comment on the likelihood of … specific basis, this paper provides a set of alternatives that can be used by economists and attorneys in antitrust agencies to …

This chapter argues that America’s antitrust laws operate by one essential mechanism: the destruction of contracts …. Starting with the Sherman Act in 1890, antitrust signaled an end to what Sir Henry Maine had called the “movement from Status … facilitated cooperative human production on an unprecedented scale. Through antitrust law, government assumed dominion over …

This article studies how the presence of an antitrust authority affects market-sharing agreements made by firms. These … pursued by antitrust authorities. This article shows that while in the absence of the antitrust authority, a network is stable … if its alliances are large enough when considering the antitrust authority, and more competitive structures can be …

This paper investigates the interplay between copyright law and antitrust law in two distinct respects. We first argue …

illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of … disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …

illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of … disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …

demonstrate the efficacy of this model through an antitrust theory of countervailing power, a theory that can be gleaned from five …The focus of modern applications of economic reasoning to antitrust concerns has been on the more subtle efficiency or … antitrust violation. Two major difficulties arise with this approach. First, efficiency or procompetitive aspects can almost …

economic effects have been controversial. Tying has been attacked on the theory that price discrimination of this sort reduces … standalone price of one good when inaugurating the bundled discount. Antitrust’s per se rule is reserved for practices that are … so likely to cause antitrust harm and have so little to defend them that detailed case-by-case assessment is thought to …

in the domain or jurisprudence of courts or antitrust agencies. Indeed, these foundations are far away from the … tying as price discrimination is a part of the study. And essentially, antitrust policy choices in order to distinguish …

This article is about the relationship between antitrust and consumer protection law. Its purpose is to define each … antitrust laws are intended to ensure that the marketplace remains competitive, unimpaired by practices such as price fixing or … antitrust violations stem from market failures in the general marketplace external to consumers, whereas consumer protection …