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This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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reconciled with principles of oligopoly theory. This article (1) presents a fundamental reconceptualization of our understanding …, conventional formulations tend to impose liability in cases with lower deterrence benefits and greater chilling costs than those …
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Market power is the most important determinant of liability in competition law cases throughout the world. Yet … market power have the same probative force? Or even influence optimal liability determinations in the same direction? This … sometimes disfavor liability. This gulf between conventional wisdom and correct understanding suggests the need to redirect …
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This article examines optimal policy toward coordinated oligopolistic price elevation. First, it analyzes the social welfare implications of enforcement, elaborating the value of deterrence and the nature of possible chilling effects. Then, it explores a variety of means of detection, with...
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Market definition has long held a central place in competition law. This entry surveys recent analytical work that has called the market definition paradigm into question on a number of fronts: whether the process is feasible, whether market share threshold tests are coherent, whether the...
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The flow of resources across sectors to their best use, with concomitant entry and exit, is central to the functioning and welfare properties of a market economy. Nevertheless, most industrial organization research, including applications to competition policy, undertakes partial equilibrium...
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In competition law, market power requirements are often articulated in terms of market shares. The use of market share thresholds, however, conflates two distinct questions: (1) How much market power exists in a given situation? (2) How much market power should the law require? As a consequence,...
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empirics and policy. On the other hand, market power is often probative of the desirability of liability, yet the typically … consequences of correct and mistaken imposition of liability in order to identify the various ways and senses in which market power …
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The recently issued revision of the U.S. Horizontal Merger Guidelines, like its predecessors and mirrored by similar guidelines throughout the world, devotes substantial attention to the market definition process and the implications of market shares in the market that is selected. Nevertheless,...
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