Antitrust.www.antitrust Antitrust The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and marketing. They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade. .org Maintained by Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, the Antitrust Policy site strives to bridge the gaps between law and economics and between academics and practitioners. Content is organized into sections on mergers, price fixing price fixing n. a criminal violation of federal anti-trust statutes, in which several competing businesses reach a secret agreement (conspiracy) to set prices for their products to prevent real competition and keep the public from benefiting from price competition. , and vertical restraints Vertical restraints are agreements between firms or individuals at different levels of the production and distribution process. Vertical restraints are to be distinguished from so-called “horizontal restraints,” which are agreements between horizontal competitors. , which are further divided into subcategories such as economic research, law and policy, case studies, and news. Clicking on a case study in Mergers, for example, reveals links to related DoJ complaints, expert-witness testimony, decisions, and appeals documents. Other areas include Common-Sense Guidelines for avoiding antitrust problems and an Antitrust Humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was section-- which, not surprisingly, is brief. |
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