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Beware Buyer Power, Robert H. Lande
Beware Buyer Power, Robert H. Lande
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The conventional antitrust wisdom is that buyer side market power or monopsony is so unusual and so rarely anticompetitive that it should not merit more than a scholarly afterthought. Moreover, these brief mentions typically say it is essentially the mirror image of seller power or that, while seller-side power is suspect since it leads to higher consumer prices, buyer-side power is usually benign, because the public should not care which layer of a distribution channel gets any potential savings that can arise. This short article discusses how buyer power can be anticompetitive. It also discusses how buyer power or monopsony …
Introduction To Symposium On Integrating New Economic Learning With Antitrust Doctrine, Jonathan Baker
Introduction To Symposium On Integrating New Economic Learning With Antitrust Doctrine, Jonathan Baker
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