Antitrust Bulletin articles from June 2005

Antitrust Bulletin archives from June 2005

A comparative analysis of U.S., EU, and Japanese Microsoft cases: how to regulate exclusionary conduct by a dominant firm in a network industry.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION From the perspective of competition law, corporate activities are divided between (1) multifirm conduct (that is, collusive or cooperative conduct by firms), and (2) unilateral conduct (conduct by a single firm). In regard to...

Price competition and slotting allowances.
June 22, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION Vertical relationships between manufacturers and downstream distributors are seldom simple arm's-length sales of goods. Many vertical contracts call for conduct by distributors that affects competition either upstream or...

Merger of Bertrand competitors can decrease price.
June 22, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION For some time now, prominent antitrust economists have advocated models of differentiated Bertrand competition, which appear to imply that merger of a subset of competitors necessarily raises price, or have made general...

Economic Essays on Australian and New Zealand Competition Law.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Maureen Brunt The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International (2003), xxiv + 378 pp., $124. It is difficult for someone who has not spent a lot of time in Australia to appreciate the esteem in which Maureen Brunt is held among...