The Elusive Profitability of Voluntary Pricing
WSJ has a fascinating story this morning about a group of restaurants in Utah, Washington, Colorado and other places adopting a completely voluntary pricing system. . . .
The Elusive Profitability of Voluntary Pricing
Chinese Antitrust Law Coming Soon … ?
It looks like, according to this report, the long-awaited Chinese Anti-Monopoly law will be passed next week and take effect August 1, 2008. See here . . .
Our “Protective” FDA
The FDA, it seems, is rejecting more new drugs. The agency approved only 61 percent of 2007 drug applications through mid-August, down from 73 percent . . .
I am so smart, s-m-r-t. . . I mean, s-m-a-r-t.
I’m not one to gloat. Ok, yes i am. As Thom indicated, the court reached what I believe is the right result in the Whole . . .
Manne Vindicated!
Geoff made all the right arguments on the FTC’s embarrassing effort to thwart the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger. Indeed, he was one of the first . . .
Weyerhaeuser and the Search for Antitrust’s Holy Grail (Part I)
While the antitrust nerds of the world (including yours truly) have been all atwitter over Leegin’s renunciation of Dr. Miles, another antitrust decision from October . . .
Chemerinksy’s Theory of the Roberts’ Court’s Antitrust Jurisprudence
In a California Bar Journal, Professor Chemerinsky documents what he describes as the Supreme Court’s “sharp turn to the right.” Ted Frank describes Chemerinsky’s review . . .
How to Survive A Motion to Dismiss After Twombly
David Fischer at Antitrust Review points to a decision out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where plaintiffs’ allegations of conspiracy in violation of Section . . .
Symposium on Empirical Antitrust in the Antitrust Law Journal
The application of empirical economic methods in antitrust can and should play an important, even central, role in the development of sound competition policy. For . . .