Rethinking Antitrust Policy toward RPM

Antitrust Policy in Aftermarkets

Many recent antitrust cases concern aftermarkets: markets for goods or services used together with durable equipment but purchased after the consumer has invested in the equipment. Examples include computer parts, software upgrades, repair manuals, and training. Durable goods manufacturers are often the dominant providers of aftermarket products. The cases involve a variety of alleged anticompe...

Some Thoughts on "Antitrust Policy" and the Antitrust Community

Business Strategy and Antitrust Policy

Business strategy is fundamentally about firm decision-making. Antitrust policy and enforcement, in turn, evaluate the decisions made by firms and the market outcomes that result. To the extent that firms’ decisions will be scrutinized ex post, managers must understand how antitrust concerns might constrain their actions and, thus, suggest alternative optimal decisions. Owing to this importance...

Experimental Methods and Antitrust Policy

Antitrust policy has evolved substantially in the last two decades. Although the incorporation of new empirical methods has played a critical role in this evolutionary process, with only a few exceptions experimental tools have not been employed. This omission is unfortunate, because appropriately constructed experiments can uniquely provide important insights. This paper summarizes some of our...

Rethinking antipsychotic formulary policy.

In this commentary, we review recent research suggesting that (a) second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) may be no more effective than first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs), (b) the reduced risk of EPS and tardive dyskinesia with SGAs is more weakly supported by the research literature than has been appreciated, and (c) benefits may be offset by greater metabolic risks of some SGAs and their ...