Antitrust Bulletin articles from September 2001

Antitrust Bulletin archives from September 2001

Antitrust regulability and the new digital economy: a proposal for integrating "hard" and "soft" regulation.
September 22, 2001... I. Introduction: Antitrust in the era of late capitalism We live in an era in which many of the central ideas of the modern regulatory state no longer seem to have currency. Many in the business community believe that government regulation...

Antitrust federalism in the European Union after the modernization initiative.
September 22, 2001... The European Commission's (EC) white paper on antitrust modernization and proposal for amendment of regulation 17 portends the most substantial reform of EC competition law in its history.(1) At the heart of this reform, and essential for its...

Second order oligopoly problems with international dimensions: sequential mergers, maverick firms and buyer power.
September 22, 2001... I. Introduction The unprecedented merger wave of the past several years has consolidated many markets, and raised the specter that economies worldwide may be increasingly subject to oligopolistic coordination. Oligopoly problems are hardly...

Can Japan Compete?(Review)
September 22, 2001... In the 1600s, Galileo made a series of empirical findings using a new device called a telescope that challenged 1000 years of conventional wisdom about the Earth as the center of the universe, and confirmed a new theory that the center was the...

Recent development of Japanese antitrust policy regarding intellectual property rights.
September 22, 2001... This article reviews recent developments of Japanese antitrust policy involving intellectual property (IP) rights, after the OECD 1998 IPR report(1) and Iyori and Uesugi book, 1994.(2) The IP-Guidelines issued by the Japanese Fair Trade...

Governance in the New Zealand electricity market: a law and economics perspective on enforcing obligations in market based on a multilateral contract.
September 22, 2001... I. Introduction Various factors have challenged the traditional practice of heavy regulation of networks.(1) These include a better understanding of the poor economic performance that has accompanied heavy regulation,(2) of the political...