Tag: Federal Trade Commission
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...
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 ––...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
