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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioDoes Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence

Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, April 15, 2004, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston review the literature and assesses the effects of antitrust policy and enforcement on consumer welfare. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCostly Exercises in Futility: Breaking Up Firms to Increase Competition

Robert W. Crandall, December 15, 2003, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Robert W. Crandall argues that the government should not try to break up telecommunication companies to make the industry more competitive, but instead, the government should let the companies compete among themselves for customers. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioRelationships in Financial Services: Are Anti-Tying Restrictions Out of Date?

Robert E. Litan, March 15, 2003, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Robert E. Litan advocates that policy makers allow the marketplace to determine what combinations of financial services are offered to corporate customers who do not need to be protected by artificial rules that may once have been useful but certainly are no longer. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioComment on the Revised Proposed Final Judgment

Robert E. Litan, Roger G. Noll and William D. Nordhaus, January 15, 2002, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Robert E. Litan, Roger G. Noll and William D. Nordhaus argue that the Revised Proposed Final Judgement (RPFJ) is not in the "public interest," as that test is applied under the Tunney Act. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Failure of Structural Remedies in Sherman Act Monopolization Cases

Robert W. Crandall, March 15, 2001, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Robert W. Crandall takes a look back over more than a century of Sherman Act case law to see how frequently structural relief has been imposed in monopolization cases that involve a single firm that has not attained its market position through merger or from conspiring with other firms. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWhy the Minnesota Supreme Court Should Overturn a Lower Court Decision on Price-Setting

Robert H. Bork and Robert E. Litan, January 15, 2001, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

AEI Resident Scholar Robert Bork and Center co-director Robert Litan argue that the Minnesota Supreme Court should reverse a lower court opinion against the BASF Corporation which permits a jury to decide that a price disparity between two herbicides sold by the company constitutes an 'unconscionably large profit.' Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioEffective Structural Relief in U.S. v. Microsoft

Robert E. Litan and William D. Nordhaus, May 15, 2000, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

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