Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2008
ISSN
0003-603X
Publisher
Federal Legal Publications
Language
en-US
Abstract
The Antitrust Modernization Commission recommends that refusals to deal with rivals in the same market should rarely, if ever, be unlawful. I will focus on the principles that should determine the legal standard governing unilateral refusals to deal. A legal test that is strongly biased in favor of defendants, as the Commission recommends, is desirable as a default rule and especially in cases in which the essential facility at the core of the refusal to deal dispute is efficiency enhancing. However, there is another set of cases in which the defendant gains control of an essential market portal. In these cases, a legal test that is less biased toward defendants may be preferable to the Commission's suggested approach.
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton,
Unilateral Refusals to Deal and the Antitrust Modernization Commission Report
,
in
53
Antitrust Bulletin
623
(2008).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/785
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Comments
Updated with published version of paper on 9/24/22
Working paper available on SSRN