Trade Regulation

by Handler, Milton; Pitofsky, Robert; Goldschmid, Harvey J.; Wood, Diane P.

• ISBN13: 9781566624411
• ISBN10: 156662441X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Foundation Pr

Table of Contents

PREFACE	iii	(20)
TABLE OF CASES	xxiii
CHAPTER 1 The Objectives and Origins of Antitrust Law	1	(97)
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1. The Goals of Antitrust Policy	1	(25)
2. The Historical Sources of Antitrust and Modern Implications of Common-Law Cases	26	(72)
CHAPTER 2 Institutional Framework of Antitrust Policy	98	(54)
1. The Three-Level Antitrust Enforcement Pattern	98	(42)
2. The Limits of Antitrust	142	(10)
CHAPTER 3 Market Structure and a First Look at the Problem of Monopoly Power	152	(69)
1. Monopolization and the Problem of Market Definition	152	(69)
CHAPTER 4 Competitor Collaboration on Price Fixing and Division of Markets	221	(141)
1. Conspiracy in Theorey and Action	221	(18)
2. Development of the "Per se" Rule on Price Fixing	239	(19)
3. Characterization Questions and Other Issues	258	(73)
4. Division of Territories and Some Other Horizontal Restraints	331	(31)
CHAPTER 5 Group Refusal to Deal and Joint Ventures	362	(120)
1. Refusals to Deal	362	(53)
2. Joint Ventures Revisited: Issues of Membership and Access	415	(32)
3. Efforts to Influence Government Action	447	(35)
CHAPTER 6 Market Concentration, Conspiracy, and the Antitrust Laws	482	(98)
1. The Early Failure to Extend Antitrust Remedies to Oligopoly Markets	482	(2)
2. Concentration, Price Leadership, and "Conscious Parallelism"	484	(96)
CHAPTER 7 Vertical Restraints on Competition	580	(94)
1. The Economics of Vertical Restraints	580	(4)
2. The Interplay of Common Law and Antitrust Laws	584	(90)
CHAPTER 8 Additional Limitations on a Single Firm Exercising Market Power	674	(187)
1. Predatory Price Cutting	674	(28)
2. Tying Arrangements	702	(51)
3. Partial Vertical Integration By Contract: Exclusive Selling and Exclusive Dealing Arrangements	753	(33)
4. Section 2 Revisited: Special Limits on Single Firm Market Power by Monopolists and Would-Be Monopolists	786	(75)
CHAPTER 9 Mergers	861	(214)
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1. Background on Early Merger Law and the Amendment of Section 7 of the Clayton Act in 1950	861	(6)
2. Proscribed Effect in Horizontal Mergers	867	(101)
3. Joint Ventures, Potential Competition, and Conglomerate Mergers	968	(41)
4. Integration Through Vertical Merger	1009	(66)
CHAPTER 10 Some Limits on the Reach of Antitrust--Direct Regulation, Federalism, and Comity	1075	(146)
1. Antitrust and Direct Federal Regulation	1077	(28)
2. "State Action" and Tensions With Federalism	1105	(54)
3. "Comity" or Conflict With Foreign Sovereigns	1159	(62)
CHAPTER 11 Price Discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act	1221
1. The Economics and Politics of Price Discriminati Legislation	1221	(5)
2. Some Jurisdictional Problems and Issues of Language	1226	(8)
3. The Anticompetitive Effects of Price Discrimination	1234	(42)
4. Defenses	1276	(24)
5. Brokerage, Ad Allowances and Services	1300	(8)
6. Buyer's Liability for Inducing or Receiving Discriminations in Price	1308
Appendix A. Principal Antitrust Statutes	1	(35)
Appendix B. U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations	36