Brookings: Topics - Antitrust

Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston review the literature and assesses the effects of antitrust policy and enforcement on consumer welfare.

Costly Exercises in Futility: Breaking Up Firms to Increase Competition

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Robert W. Crandall argues that the government should not try to break up telecommunication companies to make the industry more competitive, but instead, the government should let the companies compete among themselves for customers.

Relationships in Financial Services: Are Anti-Tying Restrictions Out of Date?

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Robert E. Litan advocates that policy makers allow the marketplace to determine what combinations of financial services are offered to corporate customers who do not need to be protected by artificial rules that may once have been useful but certainly are no longer.

Comment on the Revised Proposed Final Judgment

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Robert E. Litan, Roger G. Noll and William D. Nordhaus argue that the Revised Proposed Final Judgement (RPFJ) is not in the "public interest," as that test is applied under the Tunney Act.

The Failure of Structural Remedies in Sherman Act Monopolization Cases

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Robert W. Crandall takes a look back over more than a century of Sherman Act case law to see how frequently structural relief has been imposed in monopolization cases that involve a single firm that has not attained its market position through merger or from conspiring with other firms.

Why the Minnesota Supreme Court Should Overturn a Lower Court Decision on Price-Setting

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

AEI Resident Scholar Robert Bork and Center co-director Robert Litan argue that the Minnesota Supreme Court should reverse a lower court opinion against the BASF Corporation which permits a jury to decide that a price disparity between two herbicides sold by the company constitutes an 'unconscionably large profit.'

Effective Structural Relief in U.S. v. Microsoft

Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT