Antitrust Bulletin articles from September 1996

Antitrust Bulletin archives from September 1996

Downsizing antitrust: is it time to end dual federal enforcement?(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Since 1992 I occasionally have worked on projects to provide antitrust advice to countries making the transition from central planning to a market economy. A major issue in creating antitrust systems in formerly...

Antitrust in a more conservative Congress.(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... Antitrust is not inherently liberal or conservative.(1) It embodies concerns important to both liberals and conservatives - on the one hand antitrust enforcement often focuses on abuses of economic power and on the other hand its focus is to...

Congress and antitrust exemptions: is statutory antitrust relief necessary for health care reform?(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... Congress has a variety of ways to make its will mown regarding competitive issues and a variety of tools to shape antitrust enforcement. Congressional oversight committees can use their investigative and information-gathering powers and...

How will antitrust agencies deal with an increasingly conservative Congress?: a state perspective.(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... An important, but unstated, premise of this question is that a more conservative Congress will be hostile to antitrust enforcement. This is not an assumption that should be accepted easily or uncritically. Core antitrust values have...

Epilogue: the issues that divide us.(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... A number of authors in this symposium find general agreement that antitrust plays a useful and important role in society. A number also observe that we should structure our enforcement mechanisms with an eye toward efficient provision of...

Comments on Greene, Marvel, and Owen papers at WEA meetings. (response to article by Thomas Greene in this issue, p. 577; to Howard P. Marvel, Antitrust Bulletin, vol. 41, p. 15, 1996; and to Deborah K. Owen, Antitrust Bulletin, vol. 41, p. 1, 1996)(A Symposium (Part II): Antitrust, Current Enforcement, Congressional Attitudes and Initiatives)
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction At the Western meetings, I commented on articles by Howard Marvel, Deborah Owen, and Thomas Greene. I have prepared comments below on these articles. Thomas Greene(1) Thomas Greene's article discusses the...

The anticompetitive nature of brand-name firm introduction of generics before patent expiration.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Recently, brand-name pharmaceutical companies have begun to adopt a strategy of producing a generic version of their patented brand-name drug before the expiration of the patent ("preexpiration") and to contract to...

Antitrust damages from lost opportunities.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Economic(1) and legal analysis of alternative approaches to antitrust damages in the antitrust literature is surprisingly sparse.(2) While dozens of articles appear on antitrust liability Issues in areas as, say, resale...

Market definition: implementing the Department of Justice Merger Guidelines.
September 22, 1996... My lament is that this battle on market definitions... has received virtually no attention from us economists. Except for a casual flirtation with cross elasticities of demand and supply, the determination of markets has remained an...

The market for corporate control and the regulation of mergers in the U.K.
September 22, 1996... Introduction The market for corporate control brings together the buyers and sellers of companies. There are many motives behind the decision to acquire another firm, or part of a firm, including anticipated efficiency gains or the...

Federal Antitrust Policy During the Kennedy-Johnson Years.
September 22, 1996... Reviewed by Theodore P. Kovaleff, Chair, Community Board 9, Manhattan, NY.(1) The history of antitrust policy and enforcement is a fertile field for research as little work has been done in the area by non-lawyers; in relative terms, only...