Tag: Consumer Welfare
Who’s Afraid of the Internet? Time to Put Consumer Interests at...
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Stephen Kinsella, Hanne Melin, Mar 12, 2009
The on-going review of the Vertical Restraints...
The DOJ’s Single-Firm Conduct Report: Promoting Consumer Welfare Through Clearer Standards...
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Thomas O. Barnett, Hill B. Wellford, Oct 1, 2008
On September 8, 2008, the...
Thoughts on the Chicago Legacy in U.S. Antitrust
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Richard Schmalensee, May 02, 2007
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Holding Innovation to an Antitrust Standard
Richard Gilbert, Apr 19, 2007
Several antitrust cases have involved allegations of anticompetitive innovation or product design and some plaintiffs and antitrust scholars have argued...
An Introduction to Bork (1966)
Douglas Ginsburg, Apr 01, 2006
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the cornerstone of the U.S. antitrust regime, broadly prohibits contacts, combinations, and conspiracies in...
The Economics of Welfare Standards in Antitrust
Joseph Farrell, Michael Katz, Nov 01, 2006
There has been considerable debate concerning whether consumer surplus or total surplus should be the welfare standard for...
Welfare Standards and Merger Analysis: Why Not the Best?
Ken Heyer, Nov 01, 2006
The author argues for using the total welfare standard, rather than the more commonly employed consumer welfare standard. In doing...
