Research Catalog

Title

Competition policy, domestic and international / F.M. Scherer.

Author

Scherer, F. M. (Frederic M.)

Publication

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2000.

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Description

viii, 445 pages : charts; 25 cm.

Summary

• "For three decades F. M. Scherer has been writing on questions of competition policy from multiple perspectives as a professional economist, a consultant in numerous antitrust and international trade proceedings, and (for two years) chief economist of the US Federal Trade Commission. This volume collects 26 of his most important papers, both previously published and unpublished, on a broad array of competition policy issues.
• The papers address the historical antecedents and rationale of competition policy, the logic of market definition and the implications of pricing strategies pursued by enterprises with monopoly power. The author also examines tradeoffs between competition goals and the attainment of static and dynamic efficiency, implementing effective remedies in merger and monopoly cases and the role of competition policy in an increasingly open world economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Economists of the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Economists of the twentieth century.

Subject

• Competition > United States
• Competition, International
• Antitrust law
• United States > Commercial policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. The Goals of Competition Policy. 2. Efficiency, Fairness and the Early Contributions of Economists to the Antitrust Debate. 3. Antitrust: Ideology or Economics? 4. Sunlight and Sunset at the Federal Trade Commission. 5. Public Regulation Economics Then and Now -- Pt. II. Conduct Rules. 6. Focal Point Pricing and Conscious Parallelism. 7. Predatory Pricing and the Sherman Act: A Comment. 8. Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power. 9. Summary Paper on Petroleum Exchanges. 10. How US Antitrust Can Go Astray: The Brand Name Prescription Drug Litigation. 11. On Maritime Shipping Conferences. 12. Prepared Statement. 13. The Economics of Vertical Restraints -- Pt. III. Market Structure and Efficiency. 14. Antitrust, Efficiency, and Progress. 15. Testimony in US v. G. Heileman Brewing Co. Inc., and Associated Brewing Company. 16. Corporate Takeovers: The Efficiency Arguments.
• 17. Memorandum to Attorney General Griffin Bell on the Proposed Merger of Two Steel Companies. 18. Affidavit on Efficiency Defenses in US v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. et al. 19. Secrecy, the Rule of Reason, and European Merger Control Policy -- Pt. IV. Remedies. 20. Prepared Statement on Vertical Integration of the Leading US Petroleum Companies. 21. Rewriting History: The Early Sherman Act Monopolization Cases -- Pt. V. Patents and Competition Policy. 22. Compulsory Licensing in Antitrust Decrees. 23. The Patent System and Innovation in Pharmaceuticals -- Pt. VI. International Competition Policy. 24. International Trade and Competition Policy. 25. Competition Policies for an Integrated World Economy. 26. International Competition Policy and Economic Development. 27. Retail Distribution Channel Barriers to International Trade.

ISBN

184064320X

LCCN

00061020

OCLC

• 505634640
• ocn505634640
• SCSB-4092937

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries