Assessing the anticompetitive effects of multiproduct pricing
Edición de la obra Assessing the anticompetitive effects of multiproduct pricing
| Autor | Dennis W. Carlton |
|---|---|
| Editorial | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, MA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Formato | Electronic resource |
| LCCN | 2008611010 |
| Serie | NBER working paper series -- working paper 14199 · Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14199. |
| Número de Cutter | C285a |
"In response to the "standardless" approach used in LePage's v. 3M, the Antitrust Modernization Commission (AMC) and others advocate using a discount allocation approach to assess whether bundled loyalty discounts violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act. This approach treats loyalty discounts like predatory pricing. The analogy to predatory pricing is flawed. We propose an alternative approach that focuses on the presence of significant scale economies. We use our approach to analyze LePage's, as well as the recent PeaceHealth decision"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.