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Robinson-Patman Redux: A Visit to Falls City

Robinson-Patman Redux: A Visit to Falls City

By Richard M. Steuer1   The Robinson-Patman Act is attracting growing attention as a tonic for small businesses. Created during the Great Depression, the Act has...
1-ROBINSON-PATMAN: HOW DID WE GET HERE? COULD WE GO BACK? By Steven Cernak & Luis Blanquez

Robinson-Patman: How Did We Get Here? Could We Go Back?

Government enforcement and private litigation of the Robinson-Patman has been minimal during the past decades. However now the FTC –– among many others ––...
3-REFORMING THE ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT By John B. Kirkwood

Reforming The Robinson-Patman Act

The flaws in the Robinson-Patman Act are well known. It protects competitors at the expense of consumers and rarely stops the buyer-induced discrimination it...
4-THE ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT: EVERYONE OLD IS NEW AGAIN By Patrick A. Bradford

The Robinson-Patman Act: Everyone Old Is New Again

Originally passed in the mid-1930s to protect small grocery businesses in the face of fast-growing chain supermarkets that could negotiate steep discounts for bulk...
5-ROBINSON-PATMAN ASCENDANT? By David Munkittrick & Colin Kass

Robinson-Patman Ascendant?

It almost goes without saying that Walmart gets the best prices, which are then passed on to customers in the store. You go to...
6-RESUMED FTC ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PRICE DISCRIMINATION, AND RAMIFICATIONS OF A CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING OF PRICE DISCRIMINATION FROM ROBINSON-PATMAN By Lawrence D. Silverman

Resumed FTC Enforcement Against Price Discrimination, and Ramifications of a Conscious...

In September of 2022, FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya gave a speech in which he discussed the resumption of Robinson-Patman enforcement by the FTC.  In...
The FTC’s New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement

The FTC’s New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement: To What...

By Koren W. Wong-Ervin & Sam Sherman*   On November 10, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a new policy statement regarding the scope of...
1-How The New Anti-Merger Policy May Be The New Antitrust Paradox By Maureen K. Ohlhausen & Taylor Owings

How the New Anti-Merger Policy May Be the New Antitrust Paradox

Neo-Brandeisian policies that would chill acquisitions by highly capitalized companies, or companies with 30%+ market share in some related market, would remove from the...

Dissatisfaction at the Federal Trade Commission: An Empirical Analysis of Size...

George S. Ford, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies Recent press reports reveal that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has experienced...

Federal Trade Commission vs. Qualcomm: Mangling Microeconomics

By Carl Shapiro & Keith Waehrer This paper provides an economic analysis of the antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission against Qualcomm regarding...
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