United States v. Microsoft: A Failure of Antitrust in the New Economy

The Microsoft Antitrust Case. A Case Study For MBA Students

This case study discusses briefly the economic and legal issues pertaining to the antitrust case of the United States and a number of States against Microsoft. * Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012, (212) 9980864, fax (212) 995-4218, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/, [email protected] Copyright ©, N. Economides

An Economist’s Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft

W hile most antitrust cases proceed in obscurity, the case brought against Microsoft by federal and state antitrust authorities was front-page news. Much of the drama and media hype centered on the struggle between the titan of high technology, personified in Bill Gates, and the titan of government, personified in U.S. Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein. For economists and policymakers, howe...

An Economist's Guide to U

We analyze the central economic issues raised by U.S. v Microsoft. Network effects and economies of scale in applications programs created a barrier to entry for new operating system competitors, which the combination of Netscape Navigator and the Java programming language potentially could have lowered. Microsoft took actions to eliminate this threat to its operating system monopoly, and some ...

Prepared Statement of M. Howard Morse before the Antitrust Modernization Commission Hearing on Antitrust and the New Economy

I am honored to have been asked to appear before the Antitrust Modernization Commission to address the “New Economy” issues that the Commission is studying. Many of you on the Commission are well versed in these issues based on you own experiences. I will offer my perspective today based on my ten years at the Federal Trade Commission, where I spent much of my time enforcing the antitrust laws ...

The Microsoft Case 10 Years Later: Antitrust and New Leading "New Economy" Firms