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Market Power Without Market Definition, Daniel A. Crane Nov 2014

Market Power Without Market Definition, Daniel A. Crane

Notre Dame Law Review

Antitrust law has traditionally required proof of market power in most cases and has analyzed market power through a market definition/market share lens. In recent years, this indirect or structural approach to proving market power has come under attack as misguided in practice and intellectually incoherent. If market definition collapses in the courts and antitrust agencies, as it seems poised to do, this will rupture antitrust analysis and create urgent pressures for an alternative approach to proving market power through direct evidence. None of the leading theoretic approaches—such as the Lerner Index or a search for supracompetitive profits—provides a robust …


Analyzing The Scope Of Major League Baseball's Antitrust Exemption In Light Of San Jose V. Office Of The Commissioner Of Baseball, Justin B. Bryant Mar 2014

Analyzing The Scope Of Major League Baseball's Antitrust Exemption In Light Of San Jose V. Office Of The Commissioner Of Baseball, Justin B. Bryant

Notre Dame Law Review

San Jose's antitrust suit against Major League Baseball renews the challenge of defining the scope and applicability of the baseball antitrust exemption and the struggle to sort through the lower court precedent to arrive at a workable standard for the exemption. This Note will discuss the history of the exemption, the potential standards for applying the exemption, and analyze Judge Whyte's order dismissing San Jose's antitrust claims in City of San Jose v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball to determine the persuasiveness the court's opinion may have going forward as well as potential issues with the court's reasoning.


Policing The Firm, D. Daniel Sokol Feb 2014

Policing The Firm, D. Daniel Sokol

Notre Dame Law Review

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Understanding Behavioral Antitrust, Avishalom Tor Jan 2014

Understanding Behavioral Antitrust, Avishalom Tor

Journal Articles

Behavioral antitrust – the application to antitrust analysis of empirical evidence of robust behavioral deviations from strict rationality – is increasingly popular and hotly debated by legal scholars and the enforcement agencies alike. This Article shows, however, that both proponents and opponents of behavioral antitrust frequently and fundamentally misconstrue its methodology, treating concrete empirical phenomena as if they were broad hypothetical assumptions. Because of this fundamental methodological error, scholars often make three classes of mistakes in behavioral antitrust analyses: First, they fail to appreciate the variability and heterogeneity of behavioral phenomena; second, they disregard the concrete ways in which markets, …