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Economic Rents And Essential Facilities, Keith N. Hylton Jan 1991

Economic Rents And Essential Facilities, Keith N. Hylton

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This paper presents an economic analysis of the essential facility doctrine of antitrust. According to this doctrine, a firm or group of firms that possesses exclusive access to a cost-reducing facility must be prepared to share such access on fair terms with competitors.