CRA provided consulting and expert testimony on behalf of a hospital in its lawsuit alleging that a competitor’s system-wide contracting constituted an exercise of market power to prevent the successful entry of the plaintiff. Our analysis demonstrated that the defendant’s strategy of system-wide contracting was anticompetitive.
Assessing umbrella pricing incentives
When collusive agreements involve a subset of firms in an industry, they may create the incentive and ability for firms that are not participants in the cartel...