Michael Salinger was the keynote speaker at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Fourth Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation. The discussion, “The Antitrust Investigation into Google: The Role for Economic Analysis,” is based on joint work with Bob Levinson.
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...