This paper uses the block‐booking film exhibition contracts that were the subject of Paramount to examine the role of contract terms in facilitating self‐enforcing relationships. Because of the large uncertainty in film value at the time of contracting, it is difficult to fully specify...

The antitrust law of bundled discounts is unsettled. LePage's broadly condemned bundled discounts instituted by a dominant firm where it appeared that the discounts served no economic purpose other than to place rival, single product suppliers at a competitive disadvantage. In contrast,...

The court in United States v. Microsoft Corporation paints a vivid picture of Microsoft as a monopolist taking aggressive competitive actions to protect its dominant Windows operating system against a challenge by Netscape. Even if one accepts the court’s factual description of Microsoft’s...

This paper examines the competitive actions taken by Microsoft in its "browser war" with Netscape, most importantly Microsoft's decisions to give away Explorer free of charge, integrate Explorer into its dominant Windows operating system and pay online service providers for exclusive...