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regulation, innovation, and economic growth, the process of innovation itself is not well understood. The regulation of … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding … uncertainty caused by this absence of knowledge. The relationship between regulation and innovation has posed a significant …
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. First, sector-specific regulation can be used to address market failures, such as, for instance, the presence of bottlenecks … of this paper will be on ex ante regulation. There is indeed considerable debate regarding the regulatory framework …-handed approach to regulation. Pursuant to this view, the forthcoming postal directive should only provide for minimal regulatory …
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Privacy has begun to creep into antitrust discussions. In some ways, this should not be surprising. Some of the largest … information about ourselves really is the price we pay for content, why shouldn’t antitrust limit companies’ ability to collect … inclusion of privacy in antitrust analysis. The first concern is conceptual. The analogy between privacy and quality begins to …
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This essay surveys the new institutional economics, a rapidly growing literature combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology, and anthropology to understand social, political, and commercial institutions. This literature tries to explain what institutions are, how...
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This Article challenges the overwhelming scholarly consensus opposing baseball’s historic antitrust exemption on policy … treatment of the other major professional sports leagues under antitrust law, simply exposing baseball to antitrust liability …-competitive benefits that result from baseball’s antitrust exemption. Specifically, because baseball is loath to lose its exemption …
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measured by the percentage of the court’s cases arising under the antitrust laws and the degree to which judges of a court have … skills or training specific to antitrust. The proliferation of tribunals reviewing NCA decisions invites inquiry as to … particular context of antitrust cases. We make no recommendation for or against the use of specialist courts for antitrust cases …
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The promotion of economic welfare as the lodestar of antitrust law -- to the exclusion of social, political, and … and agency decision making. In the latest of numerous challenges to the welfarist understanding of antitrust, Neil Averitt … the long ago repudiated inhospitality tradition in antitrust that should and likely will be rejected by the enforcement …
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The spread of competition laws in Latin America has been accompanied, as in Central and Eastern Europe, by warnings against over-enforcement, and in particular against enforcement of provisions against the "abuse of a dominant position" in a market that may discourage legitimate, pro-competitive...
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Antitrust has been doubly disempowered: we can no longer effectively regulate corporate power and many forms of … corporate power are now irrelevant to antitrust analysis. Drawing on the interconnected histories of antitrust and corporate law … instead be caught by antitrust. This new framework for antitrust builds on the historical models by creating dual and mutually …
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