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Econometric Analysis In Ftc V. Staples, Jonathan Baker Jan 1999

Econometric Analysis In Ftc V. Staples, Jonathan Baker

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In mid-1997, a federal district court in Washington, DC, granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) request for a preliminary injunction blocking the proposed merger of Staples and Office Depot (Federal Trade Commission v. Staples, Inc. [hereafter, Staples] 1997a). The transaction would have combined two of the nation's three leading office superstore chains. The firms chose not to pursue the case further after the preliminary injunction was issued, thus giving up on their efforts to merge.


Politics By Other Means: The Law Of The International Criminal Court, Diane Orentlicher Jan 1999

Politics By Other Means: The Law Of The International Criminal Court, Diane Orentlicher

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Judicial Review Of Fda Preemption Determinations, Amanda Frost Jan 1999

Judicial Review Of Fda Preemption Determinations, Amanda Frost

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Policy Watch: Developments In Antitrust Economics, Jonathan Baker Jan 1999

Policy Watch: Developments In Antitrust Economics, Jonathan Baker

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During the late 1970s and 1980s, the federal courts transformed antitrust rules and the federal enforcement agencies altered their case selection criteria in response to theories developed by industrial organization economists. These developments in economic thinking, often associated with the Chicago school, led current antitrust law and practice toward a greater skepticism about the relationship between market concentration and market power and a greater recognition of the possible efficiency-enhancing role of vertical agreements (contracts between firms and their customers or suppliers) than was present in the 1950s and 1960s.This survey will begin where those developments leave off by highlighting more …