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Keyword: antitrust

Aerial Predators? (6/22/2001)

Are major airlines that temporarily lower their fares to squeeze out their low-fare niche-market startup competitors guilty of predatory pricing?

Keywords: aerial predators, American Airlines, antitrust, antitrust law, average variable cost, entrants, entry, fixed costs, leader, marginal cost, monopoly, network, predatory pricing, rivals

Cleaning Up the Detergent Market (1/25/2012)

A cartel in detergents broke up over defections from agreed prices and promotion practices.

Keywords: antitrust, cartel, commodity, detergent, oligopoly, price collusion, price fixing, prisoner's dilemma, promotion

Market Intervention and Regulation (7/7/2006)

Market regulation may be justified under some circumstances to increase economic efficiency.

Keywords: antitrust, asymmetric information, commons goods, cost effectiveness, intervention, lemons, market, pollution, prescription drugs, public goods, Regulation

The Trustbusters' New Tools (8/31/1999)

Econometric analysis of store checkout scanners' data can directly predict whether a proposed merger will raise prices.

Keywords: American Airlines, anticompetitive, antitrust, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Continental Baking, Federal Trade Commision, FTC, Herfindahl index, Interstate Bakeries, market concentration, merger, Office Depot, PepsiCo, Staples

Too Much Vitamin C? (6/22/2006)

Legacy habit of central planning has led to antitrust charges against Chinese vitamin C oligopoly.

Keywords: antitrust, cartel, price fixing, regulation, vitamin C

Two-tier Wages (2/10/2012)

Detroit Three's two-tier wage system may be the answer to the cost advantage of transplanted auto makers.

Keywords: antitrust, buyer's market, collective bargaining, monopoly

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