About the Author(s)

Joshua D. Wright is founding partner of Lodestar Law & Economics and a former member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Alden Abbott

Alden Abbott is a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center and a former general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission.

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Antitrust

Antitrust Analysis of Tying Arrangements and Exclusive Dealing

Joshua Wright & Alden Abbott June 16, 2008

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 08-37 View Original Source

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Abstract

This chapter surveys the legal and economic literatures on the antitrust analysis of tying arrangements and exclusive dealing contracts. We review the analytical framework applied under U.S. antitrust law to tying, bundling and exclusive dealing arrangements as well as the existing theoretical and empirical literatures.