Price Discrimination in Perspective

Price Discrimination in Perspective
Author: Harry L. Shniderman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1987
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This second edition contains an analysis of the Robinson-Patman Act. Areas discussed include price discrimination under Section 2(a), price concessions through "brokerage" and discrimination in promotional allowances and services. Cost justification and other defenses are also assessed.

Competition Law Analysis of Price and Non-price Discrimination & Abusive IP Based Legal Proceedings

Competition Law Analysis of Price and Non-price Discrimination & Abusive IP Based Legal Proceedings
Author: Pierre Kobel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030557650

This book gathers national and international reports from around the globe on key issues in the field of antitrust and intellectual property. Its first part discusses to what extent competition law should be concerned with differences in prices, terms and conditions, or quality that suppliers offer different purchasers. A detailed international report explores the major trends and challenges in this field and provides an excellent comparative study on this complex and challenging subject. In turn, the second part examines whether there should be legal restrictions on the ability of persons who claim, without sufficient justification, to hold IP rights that have been infringed on, to bring, or to threaten to bring, legal proceedings based on such claims against their competitors or others. In this regard, the book brings together the current legal responses across a number of European countries and elsewhere in the world, all summarised and elaborated on in an international report. The book also includes the resolutions passed by the General Assembly of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) following debates on each of these topics, which include proposed solutions and recommendations. The LIDC is a long-standing international association that focuses on the interface between competition law and intellectual property law, including unfair competition issues.

Handbook of Industrial Organization

Handbook of Industrial Organization
Author: Richard Schmalensee
Publisher: North Holland
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 1989-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Determinants of firm and market organization; Analysis of market behavior; Empirical methods and results; International issues and comparision; government intervention in the Marketplace.

Price Discrimination and Quality Improvement

Price Discrimination and Quality Improvement
Author: Amy Jocelyn Glass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre:
ISBN:

'Top-of-the-line PCs and servers ... tend to be purchased by early adopters, technophiles who just can't wait' (Fortune, February 17, 1997). This paper constructs a model of quality improvements where multiple quality levels can sell due to differences in consumers' valuations of quality. Firms can price discriminate against consumers so that afficionados pay a price premium, while frugal consumers receive a quality level below the highest available. When the spending share of quality enthusiasts is sufficiently large, government intervention to ensure that only the highest quality level available of each product is sold must be welfare reducing due to reduced innovation.