Managed competition, integrated delivery systems and antitrust.

Integrated delivery systems: reforming the conflicts among federal referral, tax exemption, and antitrust laws.

Antitrust Concerns About Evolving Vertical Relationships in Health Care

The greatest challenges faced by any organization are those generated The increasingly complex organizational relationships in the health-care industry are creating new management, marby a dynamic environment. Health-care organizations have faced, and keting, financial, and legal challenges. In 1993, the Federal will continue to face, significant demands imposed by changes in the Trade Commissi...

Antitrust law may be a barrier to collaboration.

Other countries favor more regulatory strategies, such as all-payer rate setting for hospitals and physicians in Germany, and single-payer systems in France and Canada. New data show that the United States continues to spend far more than its Western allies on healthcare—and with lcss-than-universal coverage (George J. Schicber, Jean-Pierre Poullier, and Leslie M. Grccnwald, "Health Spending, D...

A multi-objective mathematical model for production-distribution scheduling problem

With increasing competition in the business world and the emergence and development of new technologies, many companies have turned to integrated production and distribution for timely production and delivery at the lowest cost of production and distribution and with the least delay in delivery. By increasing human population and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions and industrial waste, in...

Antitrust in Software Markets

In this paper, we provide an integrated economic framework for conducting antitrust policy in software markets. We identify four fundamental economic characteristics of software markets critical to antitrust analysis: (1) systems and network effects; (2) low marginal costs relative to average costs; (3) software as a durable good; and (4) rapid technological change. We then compare actual antit...