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Past, Present, And Future Of Antitrust Enforcement At The Federal Trade Commission, Robert Pitofsky
Past, Present, And Future Of Antitrust Enforcement At The Federal Trade Commission, Robert Pitofsky
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The period from 1970 to the present - roughly a third of a century - has witnessed profound changes in the quality of regulation at the Federal Trade Commission and a remarkable convergence of antitrust enforcement policy between left and right, and between primarily legal as opposed to primarily economic approaches. With respect to substantive law, areas of intellectual debate and uncertainty remain, but viewpoint differences that existed between the 1960s and the 1980s are today vastly reduced. In the 1960s, emphasis was on populist values, hostility to "Bigness," protection of competitors (especially small business) as opposed to the competitive …
Anticompetitive Overbuying By Power Buyers, Steven C. Salop
Anticompetitive Overbuying By Power Buyers, Steven C. Salop
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Two types of single-firm overbuying are analyzed in this article. Predatory overbuying consists of overbuying inputs as a predatory strategy to cause buyer-side competitors in the input market to exit from the market or permanently shrink their capacity in order to gain monopsony power in the input market. Raising Rivals' Costs (RRC) overbuying consists of overbuying inputs as an exclusionary strategy to raise rivals' input costs and thereby gain market power in the output market. In most cases, the additional input purchases are used to produce output. However, in unusual cases a firm may engage in naked overbuying, that is, …