Tag: Predation

The conventional view of predation is that of a “one-market abuse,” where profit sacrifice and recoupment necessarily take place on the same market. We...

Everybody knows that Chicago scholars dismissed predatory pricing as a practice of concern for antitrust law due to its alleged unprofitability, both relative and...

Predatory pricing is an antitrust paradox. In concept, the conduct is plainly anticompetitive, yet no predatory pricing case has resulted in an injunction or...

Just as a monopolist may eliminate its rivals through predatory pricing, a monopsonist may eliminate rivals through predatory buying. This, in fact, is what...

Janusz Ordover, Apr 19, 2007 A freshman student in economics or a Nobel prize-winning macroeconomist who has lately stumbled across a journal or two in...

Jean Tirole, Apr 01, 2005 This primer analyzes factors that make ties more likely either to hurt or to benefit consumers. It first identifies factors...

Timothy Brennan, Dec 13, 2011 The continuing fire over how to assess the competitive effects of single-firm conduct received yet more gasoline in the wake...

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Timothy Brennan, Jul 13, 2009 The handling of cases under the rubrics "monopolization,"single-firm conduct,"...

Amelia Fletcher, Apr 19, 2007 Over the past few years, there has been a burgeoning literature on two-sided markets and economic understanding of such markets...

Keith Hylton, Sep 01, 2005 Perhaps no area of antitrust law provokes as much controversy as predatory pricing, the theory that a firm violates the...