Keyword: Justice Department

Bundle of Sorrows (6/22/2006)

Merger between firms making complementary components might be anti-competitive if the merged company can price their bundled products lower than the independent component makers.

Keywords: antitrust regulation, bundle, competition, complementary goods, components, discount, European Commission, GE, Honeywell, Justice Department, merger, pricing, profit maximization

Vitamin Inc. (3/22/2005)

Mature oligopoly with a few large producers of homogeneous commodities is driven to output and price fixing to increase their profit.

Keywords: antitrust, BASF, cartel, commodities, homogeneous products, Justice Department, lysine, oligopoly, price fixing, Rhone-Poulenc, Roche, vitamin