Antitrust Bulletin articles from March 2000

Antitrust Bulletin archives from March 2000

Defining airline markets: a comparison of the U.S. and EU experiences.
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of the issues of market definition and entry barriers in the antitrust or competition policy cases in the airline sector. On the one hand, there is now a considerable...

Can international antitrust be saved for the post-Boeing merger world? A proposal to minimize international conflict and to rescue antitrust from misuse.
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction The opposition of the European Commission to the Boeing/ McDonnell Douglas merger and the compromise that Boeing worked out with the Commission mark a new era in global antitrust law. It is one that threatens to undermine...

The Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger: the economics, antitrust law and politics of the aerospace industry.
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction Few mergers in recent years have attracted so much attention on both sides of the Atlantic as the merger between The Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas Corporation, thereby demonstrating the extent to which antitrust laws...

Subsidiarity and the division of jurisdiction in EU merger control.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction March 1998 was a significant landmark in the development of merger control in the European Union. In the first legislative changes since the EEC Merger Control Regulation (MCR) was established,(1) a package of reforms was...

The (in)efficiency of the "efficient-firm" cost standard.
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction In February of 1996, the President signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (hereafter, the Act), the first comprehensive telecommunications legislation since 1934. This legislation has a distinctly procompetitive...

Testing for collusion during periods of input supply disruptions: the case of allocations.
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction Because collusion generally is a clandestine activity, detection and proof of price-fixing conspiracies has always been problematic. In the absence of explicit admissions of guilt or other forms of direct evidence (e.g.,...

Competition law in post-central-planning Bulgaria.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... I. Introduction Bulgaria, as did many other former centrally-planned economies, adopted competition legislation as part of the reform of legal instruments that were required in the transition to a market economy. Many policy advisors...

Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe: Protecting Prometheus.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe: Protecting Prometheus David J. Gerber New York: Oxford University Press (1998), xiv + 472 pp., $90.00. There are a number of baffling questions when thoughtful United States scholars...