 Antitrust PolicyRonald Cotterill () and James Brock No 2, Issue Papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy Abstract: Antitrust policy and the economic analysis of related issues in the food channel have attracted the attention of agricultural economists since the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890. In this paper we endeavor to provide some information on the actual operation of antitrust policies in the food system and the more general economy during the 1980s. Mergers and acquisitions restructured many American industries during the decade. This review of actual conduct is a fitting prologue for our subsequent discussion of the federal merger guidelines and federal policy on price discrimination. Thus, this paper is organized into two sections. The first section reviews actual antitrust and merger activity during the 1980s. The scone section provides a review of the recent federal merger guidelines and the evolution of the price discrimination laws. Keywords: antitrust; acquisitions; mergers; price discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zwi:ipaper:02 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Issue Papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy Contact information at EDIRC. |
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