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In his recent paper entitled “How Loyalty Discounts Can Perversely Discourage Discounting,” Professor Einer Elhauge …
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, not only because they can impair rival efficiency, but because loyalty discounts perversely discourage discounting even …
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We show that loyalty discounts with buyer commitments create anticompetitive effects beyond those possible with pure exclusive dealing. The loyalty discount adds a seller commitment to maintain a distinction between the loyal and disloyal price. This seller commitment reduces the seller's...
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show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty …
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Critics of current tying doctrine argue that metering ties can increase consumer welfare and total welfare without increasing output and that they generally increase both welfare measures. Contrary to those claims, we prove that metering ties always lower consumer welfare and total welfare...
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Various arguments attempting to resurrect the single monopoly profit theory of tying have been made, but none are … successful. The Seabright claim that it is supported by a lack of empirical proof fails because the single monopoly profit theory … is an impossibility theory, and my recommended exception applies to whatever empirical extent the necessary conditions …
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Chicago School theorists have argued that tying cannot create anticompetitive effects because there is only a single monopoly profit. Some Harvard School theorists have argued that tying doctrine’s quasi-per se rule is misguided because tying cannot create anticompetitive effects without...
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Blockchain may transform transactions the same way the Internet altered the dissemination and nature of information. If that were to be the case, all relationships between companies would change, including prohibited ones such as collusive agreements. For that reason, the stakes are crucial and...
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As technology and interconnectivity have continued to flourish, so too has an important and complex form of enterprise: the platform. Services like Uber, Google Search, Hulu, and American Express cater to distinct but deeply-interdependent “sides” of customers that derive value or revenues...
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Profit Theory, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 397 (Dec. 2009), contests two propositions on which efficiency-minded antitrust scholars … efficiencies. With respect to bundled discounting, the Article shows that Elhauge’s proposed liability rule is both inapposite to …
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