Healthcare Antitrust, Settlements, and the Federal Trade Commission

Research in Law and Economics contains articles on healthcare, intellectual property, labor settlements, competitive effects, cartel overcharges, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. It explores practices in pharmaceuticals, hospital and health insurance mergers, the role of economists at the FTC, the French economy, pre-trial labor settlements, and the impact of e-commerce on franchisees.

Format: Hardback
Length: 488 pages
Publication date: 30 August 2018
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

This comprehensive volume of Research in Law and Economics delves into a range of significant legal and economic developments across healthcare, intellectual property, labor settlements, competitive effects, cartel overcharges, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Comprising a collection of articles, four of which were initially presented at a conference on healthcare competition in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, this journal, and Navigant Economics, the volume explores practices under scrutiny in the pharmaceuticals sector, where the FTC has taken a keen interest. Additionally, it examines issues related to hospital and health insurance mergers.

Following this, a lengthy and in-depth discussion ensues, shedding light on the current and historical role of economists and economic analysis at the FTC. The subsequent two articles delve into different facets of the French economy, encompassing pre-trial labor settlements and the impact of e-commerce on franchisees. The volume concludes with three technical economics articles, each addressing distinct topics such as "upward pricing pressure," estimating price increases in cartel cases, and critiquing a "meta-analysis" of research on the effectiveness of U.S. merger regulation.

Taken together, these articles provoke thought-provoking inquiries into appropriate competition policy, the evaluation of settlements and other firm behaviors, and the evolving landscape of economics and competition policy.

Weight: 808g
Dimension: 179 x 238 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787566002