Antitrust Bulletin articles from September 1991

Antitrust Bulletin archives from September 1991

The Justice Department's crusade against price-fixing: initiative or reaction? (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... I. Introduction The Reagan administration's antitrust policies have been criticized as being too lenient.(1) While the claim that the Reagan administration did not aggressively enforce some portions of the antitrust laws, such as...

Merger policy in a declining defense industry. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... On December 7, 1988, Harold Simmons filed a Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notice declaring his intent to acquire over 15% of the stock of Lockheed Corporation. For the next 28 months, Simmons enlivened an otherwise sluggish merger and...

Comments on "merger policy in a declining defense industry." (response to William E. Kovacic, 36 Antitrust Bulletin 543, 1991) (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... I. Introduction The labyrinthine world of military procurement--intimately familiar to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the private defense industry--is largely uncharted by antitrust practitioners. In two recent articles,(1)...

Defining markets for merger analysis. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... I. Introduction Government antitrust enforcers have often been accused of arbitrarily defining markets broad enough to make merging firms competitors but narrow enough to make the market highly concentrated. The 1982 and 1984...

Focusing on the characterization of per se unlawful horizontal restraints. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement )
September 22, 1991... Section 1 of the Sherman Act bans "[e]very contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce."(1) Fortunately, the courts do not read the statute literally. Only agreements unreasonably...

Analyzing agreements among competitors: what does the future hold? (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... I. Introduction The potential for collusive horizontal agreements on output and prices is always present among competitors. However, collusive behavior is not limited to prices, market division, and boycotts. Competitors may employ...

Reading their lips: changes in antitrust policy under the Bush administration. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement)
September 22, 1991... Introduction Members of the antitrust bar are called upon regularly by corporations for advice. This advice not only affects firms' structural decisions, such as the decision to acquire another firm, but it also shapes day-to-day...

German Industrial Property, Copyright and Antitrust Laws.
September 22, 1991... American lawyers who specialize in antitrust law or intellecutal property law can profit greatly by becoming familiar with the work and publications of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition...

Concentration and Price.
September 22, 1991... Monopolists raise price. Right? To check this proposition Leonard Weiss has organized a task force to apply statistical tools to data on concentration and prices in a variety of markets. The authors, largely Weiss' former graduate students...