Antitrust Bulletin articles from December 2000

Antitrust Bulletin archives from December 2000

Sharper focus: market shares in the Merger Guidelines.
December 22, 2000... The planets in the heavens move in pure elliptical orbits, as Johannes Kepler showed in his Astronomia Nova of 1609. His powerful concept of the simple ellipse supplanted the highly-complicated orthodox Ptolemaic theories, which involved...

Theory and fact in antitrust doctrine: summary judgment standards, single-brand aftermarkets and the clash of microeconomic models.
December 22, 2000... In the United States, neither antitrust doctrine nor microeconomic analysis has achieved consensus long enough to establish a stable ground for antitrust policy. Whether one attributes this state of flux to the common law method, the vagaries...

LRIC pricing, dynamically competitive markets and incentives to invest in telecommunications.(long-run incremental costs)
December 22, 2000... I. Introduction The U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 outlines a "pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy" for telecommunications.(1) While the Act is a general framework, it rests specifically on competitively neutral network...

Competition policy for regulated utility industries in Britain.
December 22, 2000... I. Introduction In his 1983 report on price controls for British Telecommunications (BT), Stephen Littlechild wrote as follows: Competition is by far the most effective means of protection against monopoly. Vigilance against...

The Tobacco Wars.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Tobacco Wars Walter Adams and James Brock Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing (1999), xi + 209 pp. Reviewed by Theodore P. Kovaleff, Senior Bank Analyst, Dirks & Co.; President, Informed Sources Service Group. This...

James Atwood, Kingman Brewster and Spencer Weber Waller's Antitrust and American Business Abroad, 3d ed.(Review)
December 22, 2000... James Atwood, Kingman Brewster & Spencer Weber Waller's Antitrust and American Business Abroad Spencer Weber Waller St. Paul, West Group (3d ed. 1997), 2 vols., xxxi + 1200 pp., supplements, $230. Reviewed by Michael Wise, Attorney,...