Tag: Potential competition

Dear Readers, Potential (as opposed to “actual”) competition is defined, essentially, as a competitive constraint on a given firm’s behavior that might “potentially” arise, but...

Potential competition is an economic force not yet shaping competition in a given market, but which has the potential to do so in the...

Potential and nascent competition have seen renewed interest from academics, antitrust practitioners, and United States enforcement agencies in recent years. For example, the Federal...

The puzzle of potential competition mergers is not theoretical but empirical — verifying that the firm not in the market is a likely significant...

Antitrust enforcement efforts against “big-tech” have been hobbled by the destruction of the “potential competition doctrine.” This post describes how the Supreme Court made...

One of the most important topics in antitrust is how to analyze potential and nascent acquisitions by the largest digital platforms. Notably, there have...

Before the development of formal price theory in the early twentieth century, which included the invention of the theory of “perfect” competition, economists held...

Posted by Social Science Research Network The Lundbeck Case and the concept of potential competition By Sandra Marco Colino (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Niamh...