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- Antitrust
- relating to legislative initiatives aimed at protecting trade and commerce from monopolistic business practices that restrict or eliminate competition. Antitrust laws also attempt to curb...
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- Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
- As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. The paper argues that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. It shows that demand-based cost sharing generally leads...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Winning Merger Approval From the European Commission
- Changes in the regulatory process of the European Commission are forcing companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to develop a more structured approach to addressing antitrust issues. During the past decade, many companies have come to realize that a highly structured PMI process, one that combines thoroughness with speed,...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Monopoly, Monopsony, and Market Definition: An Antitrust Perspective on Market Concentration Among Health Insurers
- This paper uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index HHI to compute the concentration of commercial health insurance markets in most of the states during the past four years. Market concentration provides an important benchmark for antitrust analysis, but it does not, standing alone, indicate the presence of problematic anticompetitive behavior or a...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Rewriting U.S. Telecommunications Law With An Eye On Europe
- Much has been written about the theoretical and pragmatic clashes between U.S. antitrust law and the competition law of the European Union. The paper then considers the ways in which certain aspects of the European approach might be received when viewed through the specific economic principles that seem currently to...
- White papers 2004-08-30
- Competing Models Of Firm Profitability
- In this paper, the author looks at four models of firm profitability: two taken from Industrial Organization, one from Finance, and one from the Economics of Exhaustible Resources. Only one predicts that there will be a positive relationship between firm profitability and the structure of the market in which the...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- With Some IP Licenses, There Are Antitrust Pitfalls
- In a technology-driven economy, protection and effective exploitation of intellectual property rights is crucial. To maximize the value of intellectual property, firms often use licensing arrangements and find willing partners to exploit, develop market, and promote the technology fully. The article discusses four situations where practitioners should be especially wary...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- Viewpoint: Mergers and Acquisitions
- A fragile global economy, an uncertain recovery in equity markets, and a business environment undermined by accounting and governance scandals have increased the complexity of deal making today. Corporate boards are exercising greater caution in assessing transactions and the risks associated with them. Antitrust problems can compromise or even derail...
- White papers 2003-10-24
- Antitrust Enforcement Agencies Allocate Industries For Review
- After a false start in January, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement this week, clarifying the lines of Agency responsibility for merger reviews and other antitrust matters.
- White papers 2003-05-02
- Antitrust Issues in Restaurant Acquisition
- Most business owners do not consider the potential for an antitrust review of their proposed acquisition transactions. Actual antitrust review of most restaurant acquisitions does not occur for a variety of reasons. Given the growing number of multiple unit restaurant operators, the rapid consolidation of franchised restaurants, and the large...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Matter Of Trust
- A look at the deals of 2002 suggests that regulators are listening to acquirers. As two straight years of dramatically lower deal-making threaten to stretch into three, unseen benefits are in short supply. Of the deals that are proposed, fewer run into the kind of antitrust obstacles that derail them...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Exclusive Dealing, "Foreclosure", And Consumer Farm
- The analysis reflected in the recent decisions will generally in the approval, usually through summary disposition, of most exclusive dealing restraints. Exclusive dealing, particularly in distribution, is common in the economy today. Insurances of true competitive harm are rare. Condemnation should be correspondingly difficult. However, in the unusual case where...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Navigating Troubled Waters: Managing The Relationship Between Merging Companies
- This article discusses the important legal principles that limit merging parties’ behavior during the period between reaching an agreement to merge and ultimately closing the transaction. After setting forth those principles, it addresses some of the more frequent questions that concern the scope of permissible conduct before parties consummate a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Concentration, Mergers, And Antitrust
- Farmers and ranchers in many agricultural commodity markets have experienced prices that do not keep up with inflation, and occasional sharp drops in prices and income. This paper focuses on the increasing concentration in agribusiness, including evidence of its impact on prices. It reviews the current antitrust policy and several...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Antitrust “Market Power” And Intellectual Property: Why FTC And DOJ Action Is Necessary
- In 1989 and again in 1995, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives considered legislation that would have prohibited courts in antitrust cases from drawing a presumption of a relevant market, or of the existence of market power, based merely on the possession of a patent or copyright.1 In...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Emerging Antitrust Issues In Electronic Commerce
- The world of electronic commerce has revolutionized retailing and marketing. Electronic commerce has not only created a new marketplace but also greatly reduced traditional market borders and the opportunities for competition. This article addresses how electronic commerce has changed the competitive retailing marketplace and how antitrust enforces face the challenge...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Strategy And Antitrust
- Intense competition prevails in the business environment. Firms try to outdo each other and gain competitive advantage in the market. Strategy is the methodology adopted by the organization to compete in the marketplace. This competitive environment is considered healthy for the business and economy alike. The antitrust authority ensures overall...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Economics And Antitrust Law And Enforcement
- From the executive summary ‘Antitrust Law is a type of Government intervention in the marketplace, in the form of indirect regulation The primary reason for such policies is to promote and preserve competition in the market system. In other words, the role of antitrust is to make markets competitive. Some...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Empirical Analysis
- In their competitive analysis of proposed bank mergers, the Federal Reserve Board, Department of Justice, and other agencies accept branch divestitures as an antitrust remedy in local markets where there is substantial overlap between the acquirer and target.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What’s Happened At Divested Bank Offices? An Empirical Analysis Of Antitrust Divestitures In Bank Mergers
- In their competitive analysis of proposed bank mergers, the Federal Reserve Board, Department of Justice, and other agencies accept branch divestitures as an antitrust remedy in local markets where there is substantial overlap between the acquirer and target. The results of this study, which examines the performance of 751 branches...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- The Credit Card Cases
- Banks that are members of Visa and MasterCard would be well-advised to consider taking steps to limit their potential exposure to persons injured by the challenged antitrust violations. When Visa was unable to require banks to choose between Visa and MasterCard, most banks chose to be members of both and...
- White papers 2002-11-11
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