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Internet Retailing and ‘Free Riding’ : A Post-Leegin Antitrust Analysis

Lao, Marina - 2014

This article is adapted for the Journal of Internet Law from a more in-depth article that the author has published …: Resale Price Maintenance: The Internet Phenomenon and Free Rider Issues, 55 Antitrust Bulletin 473 (2010). It examines the … characteristics of the Internet, online retailing, and the issues they raise pertaining to the free rider justification. It argues …

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Antitrust, the Internet, and the Economics of Networks

Spulber, Daniel F.; Yoo, Christopher S. - 2013

Network industries, including the Internet, have shown significant growth, substantial competition, and rapid …

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An Antitrust Framework for False Advertising

Carrier, Michael A.; Tushnet, Rebecca - 2021

Federal law presumes that false advertising harms competition. Federal law also presumes that false advertising is harmless or even helpful to competition. Contradiction is not unknown to the law, of course. This contradiction, though, is acute. For not only are both regimes at issue designed to...

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Five Conservative Principles to Apply Against Weaponized Antitrust

Bakst, Daren; Beaumont-Smith, Gabriella - 2021

Some legislators, especially on the far Left, have set their sights on making radical changes to federal antitrust law. They seek to weaponize antitrust law, such as by making it much easier for the federal government to wield antitrust power to reshape industries and the entire economy. This is...

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The Incoherence of Punishment in Antitrust

Waller, Spencer Weber - 2009

Antitrust began with the common law tort of restraint of trade but has long since separated itself from the rest of tort law, particularly in the area of punishment. Since the passage of the Sherman Act in 1890, the principal remedies for antitrust violations have been criminal penalties and...

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Signaling and Agreement in Antitrust Law

Page, William H. - 2017

Oligopolists look for signals from one another in planning their strategies. Some signals solicit cooperation from rivals and a still smaller number succeed in achieving noncompetitive equilibria. But only a subset of these noncompetitive outcomes involve agreements under Section 1 of the...

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Optimal Antitrust Remedies : A Synthesis

Page, William H. - 2015

Antitrust remedies -- criminal and civil, public and private, penalties and injunctions -- are supposed to “eliminate the effects of the illegal conduct” and “restore competition.” In pursuing these goals, courts and enforcers are guided by the standard of economic efficiency and by...

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Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Unilateral Conduct Cases - The Interaction Between the Economic Review of the Prohibition of Abuses of Dominant Positions and Private Enforcement

Mackenrodt, Mark-Oliver - 2011

The present paper analyzes the interaction between the economic review of the probition of abuses of a dominant position (Article 82 EC) on the one hand and the efforts to enhance private enforcement of competition law through private damage claims on the other hand. The paper argues that...

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Lower sanctions, greater antitrust compliance? : cartel conduct with imperfect information about enforcement risk

Paha, Johannes - 2014

This article provides a model of two risk-neutral firms that may cooperate to achieve a goal that is potentially illegal. The model assumes enforcement risk and firms that are imperfectly informed about antitrust law enforcement. It is shown that compliance training, which educates the agents...

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The dynamics of leniency application and the knock-on effect of cartel enforcement

Zhou, Jun - 2016

We study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis for a sample of cartels prosecuted by the European Commission between 1996 and 2014. The start of a Commission investigation does not affect the rate by which conspirators apply...

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