Antitrust Bulletin articles from December 1995

Antitrust Bulletin archives from December 1995

Antitrust's newest "new learning" returns the law to its roots: chaos and adaptation as new metaphors for competition policy.
December 22, 1995... I. Introduction American antitrust law is an advanced case study of the law's self-denying aspiration to model itself on, and incorporate the authority of science. Two generations of antitrust lawyers have been taught that their subject must...

Commercial bribery and the antitrust laws.
December 22, 1995... In the late 1930s the president of the Kentucky-Tennessee Light and Power Company accepted a bribe of 15 cents for each ton of coal sold and delivered to the utility by the coal company to which the contract to supply the utility had been...

An economic analysis of Matsushita revisited. (international antitrust laws)
December 22, 1995... I. Introduction The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of Zenith v. Matsushita(1) continues to incite debate among economists and lawyers. The case involved an allegation by the U.S. Color Television (CTV) manufacturers Zenith and NLTE...

Overlap and antitrust: fixing prices in a smoke-filled classroom.
December 22, 1995... The Overlap agreement, upon which the Third Circuit focused in United States v. Brown University, 5 F.3d 658 (3d Cir. 1993), permitted elite colleges and universities to fix undergraduate students' financial aid levels. This article models the...

Could and would understood: critical elasticities and the merger guidelines.
December 22, 1995... I. Introduction Market definition is the core of antitrust analysis. The market definition paradigm employed by the federal antitrust agencies is well-known. The Justice Department's 1984 Merger Guidelines state it in the following manner:...

Legislating competition in the Russian Federation: a new challenge for antitrust policy.
December 22, 1995... 1. Introduction Monumental changes have taken place in the former Soviet Union over the past few years. Amidst the many studies on how to achieve macroeconomic stabilization, price reform and privatization,(1) surprisingly little has been...

Framing competition law within an emerging economy: the case of Brazil.
December 22, 1995... I. Introduction On June 11, 1994, Brazil introduced a new competition law: law No. 8884 (as amended(1)). The first law to repeal previous competition legislation,(20 law No. 8884 has important implications for the substance and enforcement of...

US, Common Market: International Antitrust, A Comparative Guide, 3 vols.
December 22, 1995... Since there are few reviews in the U.S. of books on competition law in the European Community, I thought that short reviews of several of the outstanding works in the field might be helpful. This is not a comprehensive list, and some excellent...

Fordham Corporate Law Institute.
December 22, 1995... Barry Hawk, ed., $115 + shipping and packaging. Barry Hawk directs annual conferences in October on E.C. and U.S. antitrust, sometimes including neighboring topics such as intellectual property and trade policy. They are of extraordinarily high...

Competition Law of the European Community, 3d ed.
December 22, 1995... Ivo Van Bael and Jean-Francois Bellis, 3d ed., 1994, CCH Europe, xxxii + 1073 pp., incl. index, 95[pounds] hardback and 70[pounds] soft back. This text, by two leading experts in the field, analyzes the law at length and critically. There are...

EEC Competition Law: A Practitioner's Guide.
December 22, 1995... Lennart Ritter, W. David Braun, and Francis Rawlinson, 1991, lxv + 1169, of which 720 are comment, followed by appendices of legislation and the index, $195. 2d ed. in contemplation for 1997. This is a carefully written and well-structured book...

Butterworths Competition Law, 3 vols.
December 22, 1995... Peter Freeman and Richard Whish, eds., 3 large volumes, loose leaf, 595[pounds]. 4 supplements per year, 595[pounds]. This practitioners' work is competent, clear, accurate and perceptive. It cites more theoretical writing than is to be found...

EEC Competition Law Handbook.
December 22, 1995... C. Jones, M. Van der Woude and Z. Lewis, 1viii + 715 pp., 58[pounds], 6th ed. expected late in 1995. Three enthusiastic Commission officials devised this handbook and have updated it over the years. Each edition has also incorporated...

Merger in Daylight: The Economics and Politics of European Merger Control.
December 22, 1995... Damien Nevin and Paul Seabright, 1993, xxii + 296 pp., incl. index, bibliography and appendices, soft back, 25[pounds]. In May 1992, CEPR organized a workshop on Market Structure, Industrial Organization and Competition Policy financed by the...