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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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Continental Not Merging With UAL
By Jui Chakravorty Das NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc (CAL) has called off talks with United Airlines (UAUA) because of United's weak financial condition and a feeling that a merger would risk its own financial health, a source briefed on the...
Tags: Continental Airlines Inc., Los Angeles, investment, Thomson Reuters Corp.
News items 2008-04-27
Continental Not Merging With UAL
By Jui Chakravorty Das NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Continental Airlines (CAL) has called off talks with United Airlines (UAUA) because of United's weak financial condition and a feeling that a merger would risk its own financial health, a source briefed on the matter said...
Tags: Alliance, American Airlines, Merger, Antitrust, Continental Airlines Inc., UAL Corp., United Airlines, Carrier, AMR Corp., Delta Air Lines Inc., US Airways Group Inc.
News items 2008-04-27
Delta and Northwest Try to Reassure Congress on Merger
By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL) and Northwest Airlines Corp (NWA) sought to reassure Congress on Thursday that their planned merger would not hurt service, cut jobs, or blunt competition. Richard Anderson of Delta...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Delta Air Lines Inc., Northwest Airlines Corp., merger, antitrust, job, Washington, U.S. Congress, liquidity, Bush Administration, Thomson Reuters Corp., cost savings, industry, CEO, asset, worker, strategy, benefit, game
News items 2008-04-24
Google Optimistic Regulators Won't Bar Yahoo: Source
By Anupreeta Das SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG) believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc (YHOO) because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking...
Tags: Business structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Channel management, SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google AdSense, antitrust, regulator, partnership, merger, Internet search, U.S. Department of Justice, search engine, San Francisco, Internet search advertising, barrier, a
News items 2008-04-25
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...
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, SECURITY, National Bureau of Economic Research, digital-rights management, digital content, antitrust, pricing strategy
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,...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, M&A, European Commission, antitrust, best practice, merger
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...
Tags: Corporate law, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, antitrust, health care, health insurance, insurance, analysis
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...
Tags: U.S., Antitrust, Northwestern University, Europe, Corporate Law, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Business Operations, Networking
White papers 2004-08-30
Private Equity Sponsors and Interlocking Directorates: Potential antitrust Pitfall for the Unwary
A recent US lawsuit has ruled that a private equity firm cannot appoint directors to the boards of two competing portfolio companies even if those directors are different individuals. In this article, Debra Pearlstein and Jae Kim of Weil, Gotshal & Manges advice private equity firms on how to avoid...
Tags: Investment, Financial services, private equity company, private equity, director, antitrust, board
White papers 2004-08-09
antitrust and Pricing in the Motion Picture Industry
At the box office, moviegoers face a puzzling phenomenon: Tickets to all movies carry the same price tag seven days a week, throughout the year. Most moviegoers do not question this pricing pattern because they were born after it was established in the early 1970s or because they have forgotten...
Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, pricing strategy, antitrust, movie, industry
White papers 2004-05-02
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...
Tags: antitrust, finance
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...
Tags: Corporate law, antitrust, intellectual property, IP, intellectual property right
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...
Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Investment, Financial accounting, SECURITY, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., equity, antitrust, divestiture, M&A, merger, accounting, shareholder, acquisition
White papers 2003-10-24
Recent Developments In The Scope Of U.S. Jurisdiction In Discovery And Treble Damage Actions
In April 2002, Chief Judge Thomas Hogan ordered inculpatory submissions from the defendants in a treble damage litigation case. The case arose arising from the price- fixing activity of a global cartel in the bulk vitamin industry. Most of the Vitamins defendants had entered guilty pleas to conspiring to violate...
Tags: vitamin, litigation, antitrust, industry
Case studies 2003-10-01
antitrust Analysis of Mergers With Bundling in Complementary Markets: Implications for Pricing, Innovation, and Compatibility Choice
This paper develops a simple model to analyze the effects of mergers in complementary system markets when the merged firm is able to engage in bundling. In the short-run analysis, the paper analyzes the impact of (mixed) bundling on pricing decisions for existing generations of products. The basic model is...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, NET Institute, merger, pricing strategy, antitrust, analysis, industry
White papers 2003-10-01
antitrust Agencies Focus On The Health Care Industry
The FTC has increased its interest in health care. First, the Commission announced the formation of a Merger Litigation Task Force to focus on turning around the FTC's to date unsuccessful challenges to hospital mergers. The Task Force will review past mergers to determine whether price increases occurred and a...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Vertical industries, Benefits, Line56 Media, merger, FTC, health care, commission, antitrust
White papers 2003-07-29
antitrust Issues in Payment Card Networks: Can They Do That? Should We Let Them?
Although people still use cash to pay for goods and services, the trend is toward payment cards. In the U.S., payment card networks coordinate the activities of thousands of financial institutions, millions of retail locations, and several hundred million consumers. This coordination may include the collective setting of certain prices...
Tags: Corporate law, Operational accounting, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, antitrust, payment, U.S., network, financial, industry
White papers 2003-06-24
An Introduction to the Economics of Payment Card Networks
Open payment card networks typically coordinate the activities of thousands of financial institutions that issue cards, millions of retail locations that accept them, and several hundred million consumers that use them. This coordination can include the collective setting of certain prices and other controversial network rules. Such practices have recently...
Tags: Corporate law, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, antitrust, card, network, payment, financial, industry
White papers 2003-06-01
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.
Tags: Corporate law, Line56 Media, antitrust, merger, agency, industry
White papers 2003-05-02
Generic Drug Strategic Alliances: Competitive Opportunities And antitrust Risks
Generic drug firms face a myriad of competitive challenges. There are scores of strong competitors and an absence of significant entry barriers. Generic firms typically offer a significant number of products but lack the financial wherewithal, marketing depth, and financial resources of branded pharmaceutical firms. To better compete in this...
Tags: Strategy, strategic alliance, antitrust, alliance, marketing, financial, absence, merger, analysis, environment, benefit
White papers 2003-04-01
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