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good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass … examples. This advertising cost is added into the sales price of the product, resulting in consumers being harmed by the … embedded advertising costs in the products or services purchased. We argue here, using Bork's own criterion - except to expand …
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2016, following a decade of trademark litigation in connection with its competitors’ Internet search advertising practices … advertising, explores the trademark litigation of 1-800, details the FTC’s recent enforcement action against the e-retailer, and …
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, prices are zero - "free." On the other side of the market, Facebook's and Google's revenues are derived from advertising … market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …
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expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet …, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60 percent of digital advertising revenue (Media Buying 2017); Google …
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expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet …, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60 percent of digital advertising revenue (Media Buying 2017); Google …
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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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The Department of Justice ("DOJ") monopoly report is enormously disappointing for a number of reasons. The Federal …
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Complexity science is widely used across the policy spectrum but not in antitrust. This is unfortunate. Complexity science enables a rich understanding of competition beyond the simplistic descriptions of markets and firms proposed by neoclassical models and their contemporary neo-Brandeisian...
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Large platforms are often accused of refusing to serve (or discriminating against) competing sellers in adjacent product markets. Antitrust law labels such activity a unilateral “refusal to deal” (RTD) and evaluates it under a predation-like framework shaped by the two leading RTD cases,...
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competition-centered issues like targeting new market entrants.Antitrust has dismissed false advertising that entrenches monopoly …Federal law presumes that false advertising harms competition. Federal law also presumes that false advertising is ….Courts’ treatment of false advertising in antitrust cases makes no sense. While courts have reasonably evidenced concern that not all …
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