Mitigating Monopoly or Preventing Discrimination: Comparing Antitrust to Regulatory Goals in the Interstate Commerce Act

Timothy Brennan

Review of Industrial Organization, 2013, vol. 43, issue 1, 103-119

Abstract: The Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Act were passed within 3 years of each other. Although regulation and antitrust both address market power, the ICA and Sherman Act had different objectives. After a minimal reference to just and reasonable prices, the ICA focused on preventing price discrimination in rail. No posited Sherman Act goal—inequality, consumer welfare, efficiency—is in the ICA. Priority of discrimination in the ICA, however, is predictable. Shippers would care less about absolute rates—which can be passed on to final consumers—and more about preventing rivals from gaining advantages through input price discounts. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Antitrust; Interstate Commerce Act; Monopoly; Price discrimination; Regulation; L51; K21; L92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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