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George A. Hay

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An Empirical Survey Of Price Fixing Conspiracies, George A. Hay, Daniel Kelley Dec 2014

An Empirical Survey Of Price Fixing Conspiracies, George A. Hay, Daniel Kelley

George A. Hay

This paper reports on a study of recent Antitrust Division horizontal price fixing cases. The objective of the study was to determine if there has been a specific set of characteristics associated with the product or product markets that have been the subjects of price fixing. If such a pattern exists, it might provide empirical insight into some aspects of oligopoly behavior. From a policy point of view, any pattern that is found could be used in a positive enforcement program designed to investigate the "most likely" areas of price fixing. Section I reviews the academic literature which has dealt …


The Past, Present, And Future Of Law And Economics, George A. Hay Dec 2014

The Past, Present, And Future Of Law And Economics, George A. Hay

George A. Hay

Any discussion about law and economics ought to begin with a definition or at least an explanation of what it is we are talking about. There is, however, a risk in starting there. Just as classics scholars may debate endlessly about who precisely should be counted as a classicist or philosophers might debate who can properly be counted as a Kantian, there is likely to be no consensus about precisely what counts as law and economics or who is doing it. Indeed, the acknowledged superstar and chief guru of the law and economics movement, Judge Richard Posner, has argued that, …