Antitrust Bulletin articles from June 1995

Antitrust Bulletin archives from June 1995

The Microsoft muddle: a caveat.(Symposium: Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice)
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction The following articles address some of the issues raised by the Microsoft litigation. We must begin, however, with a prominently displayed caveat. Originally, all authors intended to be, through these articles, Monday...

Microsoft plays hardball: the use of exclusionary pricing and technical incompatibility to maintain monopoly power in markets for operating system software.(Symposium: Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice)
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction and summary This article examines Microsoft's licensing practices for its MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating system software. Our main focus is on Microsoft's use of CPU (central processing unit, or per-processor) licenses,...

Microsoft, monopolization, and network externalities: some uses and abuses of economic theory in antitrust decision making.(Symposium: Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice)
June 22, 1995... 1. Introduction Antitrust represents an uneasy compromise between laissez faire and interventionist visions of public policy.(1) It recognizes the need for governmental involvement in the economy beyond the protection of property rights; yet...

Some remarks on monopoly leveraging.(Symposium: Microsoft and the United States Department of Justice)
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction In opposing the Microsoft settlement, the amici curiae alleged that Microsoft engaged in exclusionary behavior that maintained its monopoly position in the operating system software market. In addition, they argued that...

The impact of the 1980's merger movement on U.S. industrial concentration.
June 22, 1995... Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention? [the inspector asked of Sherlock Holmes]. To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The dog did nothing in the night-time. That was the curious incident. Sir A.C....

The Herfindahl-Hirschman index: a concentration measure taking the consumer's point of view.(includes bibliography)
June 22, 1995... Despite numerous articles concerning the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) in this and other journals, there still appears to be a need for a good intuitive explanation of what the index represents. Providing such an explanation is the purpose of...

Monopolization, social welfare and Overlap.
June 22, 1995... Several articles concerned with United States v. Brown University, et al. (5 F.3d 658 (3d Cir. 1993)) have recently appeared. Two of these articles provide economic analyses of the issues surrounding the collegiate cartel known as Overlap. Three...