Regulation
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?
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.
Cost-efficient pollution control (11/2/2011)
Pollution tax could lead to lower-cost pollution reduction than a uniform pollution reduction quota.
Flying in the Red (9/3/2005)
Airlines deregulation has allowed more competitive discounters to grow at the expense of high-cost traditional hub-and-spokes airlines. But instead of exiting the market, the unprofitable traditional airlines hang on for dear life.
Licensed to Kill? (1/15/2005)
One-size-fits-all occupational licensing often makes entry difficult for the less educated and basic services too expensive for low-income consumers.
Market Intervention and Regulation (7/7/2006)
Market regulation may be justified under some circumstances to increase economic efficiency.
Riskless Insurance (2/27/2007)
Regulatory protection has led to legal price fixing in the title insurance oligopoly at the expense of home buyers.
Strange Bedfellows! (6/22/2001)
Government regulation might protect the tobacco industry from ruinous lawsuits.
The Orphan Chase (1/16/2006)
Orphan drugs are profitable because of third-party health insurance and favorable regulatory oversight.
The Trustbusters' New Tools (8/31/1999)
Econometric analysis of store checkout scanners' data can directly predict whether a proposed merger will raise prices.
Too Global To Be National? (6/18/2010)
US multinationals fatten their bottom lines by arbitraging wages, taxes, and regulations across countries.
Too Much Vitamin C? (6/22/2006)
Legacy habit of central planning has led to antitrust charges against Chinese vitamin C oligopoly.
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.
Who Rates the Raters? (6/17/2010)
Bond rating agencies found it hard to serve both the interests of bond investors and bond issuers since they were directly paid by bond issuers for favorable ratings.
Yellow Cabs, Red Tape (6/22/2006)
Transferable fixed-supply permanent taxi licenses result in high taxi fare and poor service with only normal return to current license owners.