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We consider antitrust enforcement within the adversarial model used by the United States. We show that, under the adversarial system, the Antitrust Authority may try to prohibit mergers also in those cases in which litigation is inefficient. Even if market concentration and technological...
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Unreasonably exclusionary conduct, the element common to monopolization and attempted monopolization offenses under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, remains essentially undefined. Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have purported to define the term, but the definitions they have...
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In a 5-4 antitrust decision in Leegin, the Supreme Court in 2007 overruled the nearly century-old precedent of Dr. Miles to end per se condemnation of minimum resale price maintenance (RPM) in favor of a rule of reason analysis. This decision places the United States at odds with the European...
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On 26 March 2018, news broke that the global ride-hailing giant Uber agreed to sell its Southeast Asian operations to its local competitor Grab. Four days later, a CoRe Blog post put forward a first assessment of the potentially anti-competitive consequences of the merger as well as the related...
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post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure). SIEIC is distinct from the mainstream unilateral effects theory of … analysis lies a fundamental question of competition theory: under what conditions can variations of existing economic models be … applied in merger cases? This paper is divided into three sections. In Section I, the SIEIC theory of harm is described and …
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of any theory of harm …
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The rise of the platform economy has been the subject of celebration and critique. Platform companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Postmates have been rightfully celebrated as positively disruptive, introducing much–needed competition in industries that have been otherwise over–mature and...
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Recent merger decisions by competition authorities have revived the debate on the relationship between competition and innovation. This article reviews this issue by drawing on the relevant economic literature, and by placing it in the broader policy debate on the benefits of competitive...
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