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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- White papers 2003-04-01
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