Antitrust Law and Competition for Distribution

Intellectual Property Rights and Antitrust Policy: Four Principles For A Complex World

Intellectual property law and antitrust policy interact in several important ways. Antitrust policy can shape the nature and value of intellectual property rights by placing restrictions on the acquisition of intellectual property, refusals to deal, and the terms adopted in licensing agreements. Moreover, antitrust policy affects the nature of product-market competition, which in turn affects t...

Antitrust, health care quality, and the courts.

Antitrust law represents the principal legal tool that the United States employs to police private markets, yet it often relegates quality and nonprice considerations to a secondary position. While antitrust law espouses the belief that vigorous competition will enhance quality as well as price, little evidence exists of the practical ability of courts to deliver on that promise. In this Articl...

Commentary - Competition Policy after Health Care Reform: Mending Holes in Antitrust Law's Protective Net.

Antitrust law has been characterized as godfather to competition in health care, as landmark cases removed professional restraints of trade and challenged anticompetitive joint ventures and networks that had inhibited market approaches. More recently, antitrust may seem more like an absentee father, as unchecked consolidation over the past fifteen years resulted in markets with dominant provide...

The stifling of competition by the antitrust laws: the irony of the health care industry.

The Effects of Deregulation on Competition: The Experience of the United States

Most economists agree that the net effect of the deregulation movement in the United States has been to increase efficiency, with resulting increases in consumer welfare. Because deregulation contemplates the substitution of competition for regulation as the “regulator” of the deregulated markets, deregulation increases the importance of antitrust law as a means of preventing unregulated firms ...