Antitrust Bulletin articles from March 1996

Antitrust Bulletin archives from March 1996

Antitrust under the watchful eye of a conservative Congress.(A Symposium: Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
March 22, 1996... Commitment to the fundamental principles underlying our federal antitrust laws has been blessedly bipartisan. Since Theodore Roosevelt embraced the Sherman Act, the antitrust laws have been enforced with great vigor, both by Democratic and...

Antitrust policy and the Republican Congress: vertical integration and vertical restraints.(A Symposium: Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
March 22, 1996... [T]he business of studying, attacking, defending, and evaluating oligopolistic behavior and its regulatyon has become one of our lively small industries, which gives employment to many gifted professional men.... [A]ntitrust has become...

Concerns raised by recent software-related antitrust cases.(A Symposium: Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
March 22, 1996... I. Introduction The software industry has received much antitrust scrutiny in recent years. A prominent governmental antitrust initiative in this area was the investigation of Microsoft Corporation's business practices, initiated by the...

Competitive effects of cable copyright law.(A Symposium: Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
March 22, 1996... I. Introduction During the 1990s, cable television's market penetration rate has continued to climb so that the industry now boasts approximately 60 million subscribers out of a nationwide total number of 95 million households.(1) In addition...

A proposal for antitrust merger enforcement reform: repudiating Judge Bork in favor of current economic learning. (Robert H. Bork)
March 22, 1996... I. Introduction The ideas of former Judge Robert Bork, as set forth in The Antitrust Paradox,(1) continue to shape federal merger enforcement policy for horizontal mergers. However, the time is ripe to reexamine the current reliance on Judge...

Hospital mergers and antitrust policy: arguments against a modification of current antitrust law.
March 22, 1996... I. Introduction America's hospital industry and antitrust enforcement agencies face a complicated dilemma. Many factors,(1) including the nation's economy, health care policy and technological advances have created an unprecedented health care...

The treatment of oligopoly under the European merger control regulation.
March 22, 1996... I. Introduction Agreement on the adoption of the EEC merger regulation in December 1989 represented a major breakthrough in the development of European merger policy. The Treaty of Rome gave the European Commission no specific powers to...