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Professor Christina Bohannan's IP Misuse as Foreclosure enlightens the debate over the patent misuse doctrine's role in regulating intellectual property owners' ever-expanding claims. Presently, courts scrutinize licensing restrictions under the antitrust laws only after determining that the IP...
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mortgage lending. Behavioral exploitation antitrust targets commercial conduct of the sort that was observed in consumer … subprime mortgage lending in the years leading up to 2007. The welfare effects of that conduct are easily established …. Antitrust-based regulation can mitigate those welfare effects. Regulation that does exist, which operates at the level of the …
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In an industry where regulated firms interact with unregulated suppliers, we investigate the welfare effects of a merger between regulated firms when cost synergies are uncertain before the merger and their realization becomes private information of the merged firm. The optimal merger policy...
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In 2011, price peaks in retail gasoline prices caused public outrage and attracted the attention of German regulatory agencies. After having examined the market, competition authorities concluded that tacit collusion existed but could not easily be prosecuted under the given competition law. In...
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competition authority while technical and economic regulation would be performed by the sector regulator. At the same time, the …
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