DYNAMIC COMPETITION AND PUBLIC POLICY

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Scholars explore antitrust issues as these relate to dynamic industry competition and public policy.Does dynamic competition furnish a new rationale for activist antitrust or a new reason for government to leave the markets alone? In this volume more than a dozen leading scholars with extensive antitrust experience explore this question in the context of the Microsoft case merger policy and intellectual property law.Does dynamic competition furnish a new rationale for activist antitrust or a new reason for government to leave the markets alone? In this volume more than a dozen leading scholars with extensive antitrust experience explore this question in the context of the Microsoft case merger policy and intellectual property law.During the 1990s US antitrust policy began to take greater account of economic theories that emphasize the critical role of innovation and change in the competitive process. Several highprofile antitrust cases have focused on dynamic innovation issues as much as or more than static economic efficiency. But does dynamic competition furnish a new rationale for activist antitrust or a new reason for government to leave markets alone? In this volume more than a dozen leading scholars with extensive antitrust experience explore this question in the context of the Microsoft case merger policy and intellectual property law.Introduction: 1. A taxonomy of dynamic competition theories Jerry Ellig and Dan Lin: 2. Innovation and antitrust enforcement Daniel Rubinfeld and John Hoven: 3. Competence explanations of economic profits: some policy implications Jay B. Barney: 4. New Incidia for competition policy and market analysis in hightechnology industries Christopher Pleatsikas and David Teece: 5. Technological standards innovation and the essential facility doctrine Richard N. Langlois: 6. Innovation and monopoly leveraging Franklin M. Fisher: 7. Competition in network industries: the Microsoft case Stan Liebowitz: 8. Intellectual property and limitations on contract: antitrust preemption and the first sale doctrine Michelle M. Burtis and Bruce H. Kobayashi: Conclusion.This is a fascinating volume on an extremely important topic. Choice an excellent review of the state of play of the dilemmas and questions being faced by antitrust and competition policy economics in the everchanging world of the modern industrial and postindustrial economy. Australian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society

Data Publikacji: 2005-11-03
Wymiary: 228 mm 152 mm 22 mm 444 gr