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Harmful Remedies: Optimal Reformation Of Anti-Competitive Contracts, Michal Gal
Harmful Remedies: Optimal Reformation Of Anti-Competitive Contracts, Michal Gal
Michal Gal
Current law and economics literature identifies two main types of errors courts can make in applying antitrust law. Courts may erroneously label a conduct as anti-competitive although competition is not harmed. Alternatively, courts may fail to identify anti-competitive conduct and thus fail to attack it. This article focuses on a third possible error where a court identifies, correctly, anti-competitive conduct but its mode of interference, its proscribed remedy, harms competition. It analyzes such error in the context of anti-competitive contract reformation. Such error occurs, for example, where a court has chosen a reformation option that is less efficient and effective …