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The Growing Influence Of Economics And Economists On Antitrust: An Extended Discussion

January 24, 2008 12:00am PST

Over the past two to three decades economics has played an increasingly important role in the development of U.S. antitrust enforcement and policy. This paper first reviews the major facets of...

Provided by: New York University

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The Economics Of Welfare Standards In Antitrust

July 20, 2006 12:00am PDT

There has been considerable debate concerning whether consumer surplus or total surplus should be the welfare standard for antitrust. This debate misses two critical issues. First, antitrust is...

Provided by: University of California, Berkeley

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Does Antitrust Enforcement In High Tech Markets Benefit Consumers? Stock Price Evidence From FTC V. Intel

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Antitrust enforcement efforts in the United States and abroad have been ramped up in high-tech industries, rekindling stale and largely unresolved debates concerning the appropriate role of...

Provided by: George Mason University

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An Antitrust Analysis of the Case for Wireless Network Neutrality

November 2, 2009 12:00am PST

The ongoing debate about possible implementation of regulatory rules requiring "Network Neutrality" for wireless telecommunications services is inherently about whether to impose prohibitions on...

Provided by: Stanford University

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Optimal Leniency Programs In Antitrust

October 19, 2010 12:00am PDT

This paper analyses the incentive structure underlying the adoption of leniency programs in antitrust enforcement. The enforcement of competition law is treated as the delegation of the economic...

Provided by: Centre For North South Economic Research

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Holding Innovation To An Antitrust Standard

March 1, 2007 12:00am PST

Several antitrust cases have involved allegations of anticompetitive innovation or product design and some plaintiffs and antitrust scholars have argued that investment in research and development...

Provided by: regulation2point0

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Beyond Schumpeter Vs. Arrow: How Antitrust Fosters Innovation

February 1, 2007 12:00am PST

The relationship between competition and innovation is the subject of a familiar controversy in economics, between the Schumpeterian view that monopolies favor innovation and the opposite view,...

Provided by: regulation2point0

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Antitrust

January 16, 2007 12:00am PST

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. The authors address four core subject areas: market power, collusion,...

Provided by: University of California, Berkeley

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Antitrust In The Not-For-Profit Sector

March 1, 2006 12:00am PST

Despite the conceptual differences between for-profit and non-profit firms stressed in conventional economic analysis of the non-profit sector, U.S. antitrust law generally does not distinguish...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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SPRING 2011 - 59th Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting 1.8.7 (Mobile)

March 18, 2011 12:00am PDT

TripBuilder EventMobile is the official mobile application for the 59th Annual Antitrust Spring Meeting taking place in Washington, DC from Mar. 30 Apr. 1, 2011.This TripBuilder EventMobile app:...

Provided by: TripBuilder, Inc.

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Antitrust Evaluation Of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative To Market Definition

November 25, 2008 12:00am PST

The authors propose a simple, new test for making an initial determination of whether a proposed merger between rivals is likely to reduce competition and thus lead to higher prices. Under current...

Provided by: University of California, Berkeley

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Risk Aversion, Prospect Theory, And Strategic Risk In Law Enforcement: Evidence From An Antitrust Experiment

March 31, 2008 12:00am PDT

In this paper the authors investigate the effects of risk preferences and attitudes towards risk on optimal antitrust enforcement policies. First, they observe that risk aversion is negatively...

Provided by: Stockholm School of Economics

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An Arbitration Clause Preventing the Award of Punitive Damages Does Not Bar Arbitration of Antitrust Claims by a Franchisee

June 19, 2003 12:00am PDT

It held that the parties' arbitration agreement must be enforced, that an arbitrator is permitted to award antitrust treble damages, and that, in this instance, the arbitral forum is an adequate...

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Does Windows 7 make Vista the new ME?

March 13, 2008 4:34am PDT

Microsoft has taken another step towards the impending release of the desktop OS that will take the place of Windows Vista. A very early version of the new OS, currently code named Windows 7, was...

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Freedom To Trade And The Competitive Process

February 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, the authors explore the idea that the...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Competition Policy Trends And Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence

November 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Motivated by the general lack of empirical scholarship concerning the cross-national environment for competition policy, the author presents measures here of the overall resources dedicated to...

Provided by: Humboldt University Berlin

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Be honest, do you really trust Google?

June 24, 2011 8:18am PDT

The FTC is apparently planning to formally investigate Google for anti-trust violations. Do you trust Google's search engine results or do you accept that they are biased?

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Apple, Google, Adobe sued for allegedly fixing salaries

May 16, 2011 6:46am PDT

In an attempt to stave off multi-million dollar bidding wars, several high-tech companies entered into agreements that the Department of Justice now says violated anti-trust laws.

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Apple vs. Adobe on antitrust: Should regulators dictate what's in an SDK?

May 5, 2010 9:31am PDT

The Feds are reportedly poking around on Apple's requirement that software developers only use its---or neutral---programming tools. Is an antitrust suit looming?

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Smartphone wars: Apple fires back at Nokia; Court skirmishes heat up

February 22, 2010 2:27pm PST

Apple has responded to Nokia's patent suit and argued in court documents that the mobile phone giant is violating antitrust laws with its "unreasonable" royalty requests for standard technology.

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