DYNAMIC COMPETITION IN ANTITRUST LAW

Antitrust Law and Competition for Distribution

An unsettled area of antitrust law is the regulation of the competitive process for product distribution and promotion. Competition for distribution involves vertical contracting with respect to product placement, promotional activity, or the decision to carry a particular product. This process includes controversial practices recently subject to intense scrutiny such as slotting allowances, lo...

In Hospital Antitrust Law

Antitrust litigation involving hospitals is common. This paper describes recent developments and underlying issues in antitrust law with respect to hospital–hospital relations, hospital–physician relations, and hospital–payer relations. A key unanswered question in each of these areas is how government regulation and public purchasing affect competitive markets for hospital services. A nt itrus...

Optimal Antitrust Enforcement , Dynamic Competition , and Changing Economic Conditions

Agricultural Contracting, Competition, and Antitrust

Two powerful and related trends in the organization of U.S. farming are: production is shifting to larger family farms and agricultural contracts are increasingly being used to guide the production and marketing of farm commodities. These combined structural changes affect productivity and costs in agriculture and in the broader food sector, and also affect the financial returns to farmers, ben...

Trade Openness and Antitrust Law*

Abstract. Openness to international trade and adopting stringent antitrust laws are both ways that countries can curb anticompetitive behavior. But scholars have long debated the relationship between these two tools. Some have argued that greater trade openness makes antitrust unnecessary, while others have argued that antitrust laws are still needed to realize the benefits of trade liberalizat...