Antitrust Bulletin articles from June 1994

Antitrust Bulletin archives from June 1994

Antitrust and managed competition for health care. (Symposium: Antitrust & Health Care 1994)
June 22, 1994... Most of the proposals for health care reform that are currently being debated in Congress fall under the broad principles of managed competition." Managed competition generally describes a regulated marketplace wherein health plans compete for...

Property rights and the presumptions of merger analysis. (Symposium: Antitrust & Health Care 1994)
June 22, 1994... Both common sense and economic theory demonstrate that the competitive behavior and financial performance of nonprofit hospitals--including the incentive to raise prices 1 not differ when faced with less competition--will not...

Economic theories of the potential anticompetitive impact of physician-owned joint ventures. (Symposium: Antitrust & Health Care 1994)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been intensely investigating potentially monopolistic practices in a number of industries over the past 2 years.(1) The FTC has recently accepted two consents for public comment in...

Commentary: antitrust and health care - a Canadian's perspective. (Symposium: Antitrust & Health Care 1994)
June 22, 1994... The debate within the United States over health care reform is watched with interest, and occasionally smugness, from north of the border. To quote Robert G. Evans: "There are two things Canadians do better than Americans--play hockey and...

Predatory pricing analysis in the Supreme Court.
June 22, 1994... Predatory pricing has been a subject of antitrust concern at least since the perceived activities of the old Standard Oil Company helped give birth to section 2 of the Clayton Act in 1914.(1) Although the problem is an old one, it has received...

Anticompetitive practices and the U.K. Competition Act, 1980. (United Kingdom)
June 22, 1994... I. Introduction The provisions of the Competition Act for dealing with "anticompetitive practices" became law in 1980. In the succeeding decade the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) produced twenty-nine reports and in a number of cases these...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association: A Study in Cartel Behavior.
June 22, 1994... Arthur A. Fleisher, III, Brian L. Goff, and Robert D. Tollison Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992), xi + 190 pp. Reviewed by John J. Siegfried, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN This' engaging book analyzes the structure and...

Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports.
June 22, 1994... James Quirk and Rodney Fort Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1992), xvii + 538 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, Northampton, MA Pay Dirt closes its introductory chapter...