Assessing the anticompetitive effects of multiproduct pricing
By: Dennis W. Carlton, Patrick Greenlee, Michael Waldman.
Contributors: Greenlee, Patrick.; Waldman, Michael.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14199; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14199.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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.
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