Showing posts with label Antitrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antitrust. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

On Regulating Debit Card Charges: Durbin's antitrust fantasies - Washington Times

EXCERPT:

"Serious economists long ago rejected the idea that market structure (the number of competitors in a market) determines whether a market will produce competitive outcomes. Markets with many competitors can nonetheless produce anticompetitive results and markets with few competitors often have vigorous competition (such as Coke and Pepsi). So instead of relying on crude indicators like market structure as a proxy for competition, antitrust economists and regulators require actual evidence of anticompetitive effect.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Justice Department's Antitrust Bomb - WSJ.com

"As if commandeering the banking, finance and auto industries weren't enough, a couple of weeks ago the Obama administration decided to throw a bomb at modern antitrust law."