Unilateral Conduct Workbook Chapter 5: Exclusive Dealing

Unilateral Conduct Workbook Chapter 1: the Objectives and Principles of Unilateral Conduct Laws

Unilateral Conduct Workbook Chapter 2: Analytical Framework for Evaluating Unilateral Exclusionary Conduct

Chapter 5–multi-criteria Decision Analysis Software Chapter 5–multi-criteria Decision Analysis Software

Through quantitative evaluation of the data and information compiled in the literature review and survey, an explicitly defined list of alternatives and decision criteria to evaluate rehabilitation alternatives was developed for culverts 122 centimeter (48 inch) in diameter or smaller. Relative weights of each criterion were assigned in comparison to the defined alternatives, thereby allowing a...

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Naked Exclusion, Refusal to Deal, and Exclusive Contracts

An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Naked Exclusion, Refusal to Deal, and Exclusive Contracts Robert Kulick1 We introduce a model of anticompetitive exclusive dealing that provides a unified treatment of two of the major categories of potentially anticompetitive single-firm conduct recognized by the FTC: refusal to deal and exclusive purchase agreements. The exclusionary mechanism succeeds by turning th...

Competition and Innovation

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have frequently raised innovation concerns as reasons to challenge mergers. This chapter surveys the economic theories of innovation incentives and considers how the theory may inform antitrust analysis for merger investigations and other conduct that involve innovation. Competition can promote innovation by reducing the value of failin...