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This volume contains ten papers, by many prominent authors, examining antitrust issues of current interest. The first paper summarizes the other papers and presents original research on the meaning of consumer welfare and the sources of buyer power. The next five articles evaluate older antitrust cases to determine whether the decisions reached, the relief ordered, or both, enhanced consumer welfare. The seventh paper describes a new measure of efficiency that gives greater weight to consumer harm and applies it to a recent merger. The next paper explains a new way in which vertical foreclosure can enhance the market power of an upstream supplier. The ninth article refines an innovative technique for identifying substitutes among a set of differentiated products. The tenth paper confronts a contentious policy issue - the treatment of patent settlements in which the patent holder pays the challenger to exit the market - and concludes that they should be per se illegal.
Price: $228.99
Pages: 504
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: JAI Press Inc.
Series: Research in Law and Economics
Publication Date:
01 July 2004
ISBN: 9780762311156
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LAW / Antitrust, Competition law / Antitrust law
1. Consumers, economics, and antitrust (J.B. Kirkwood). 2. Titan agonistes: The wealth effects of the standard oil 'N.J' case (M. Reksulak, W.F. Shughart II, R.D. Tollison, A. Basu). 3. Successful monopolization through predation: The National Cash Register Company (H.P. Marvel, K.P. Brevoort). 4. The Morton and International Salt Cases: Discounts on sales of table salt (J.L. Peterman) 5. Injunctive relief in Sherman Act monopolization cases (K.G. Elzinga, R.W. Crandall). 6. United shoe machinery revisited (R. Blair, J.B. Herndon). 7. An economic justification for a price standard in merger policy: The merger of superior propane and ICG propane (R.O. Zerbe, Jr., S. Knott). 8. Vertical mergers and market foreclosure (W.S. Comanor, P. Rey). 9. The competitive-neighbors approach to analyzing differentiated product mergers (R. Higgins, J. Levinsohn, P. Johnson). 10. Settling the controversy over patent settlements: Payments by the patent holder should be per se illegal (C.I. Leffler, K. Leffler).