Author : Dennis W. Carlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (236 download)
Book Synopsis Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing by : Dennis W. Carlton
Download or read book Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing written by Dennis W. Carlton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the "standardless" approach used in LePage's v. 3M, the Antitrust Modernization Commission (AMC) and others advocate using a discount allocation approach to assess whether bundled loyalty discounts violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act. This approach treats loyalty discounts like predatory pricing. The analogy to predatory pricing is flawed. We propose an alternative approach that focuses on the presence of significant scale economies. We use our approach to analyze LePage's, as well as the recent PeaceHealth decision.