Resale price maintenance post Leegin: A model of rpm incentives

Comanor, William and salant, david j (2016): Resale price maintenance post Leegin: A model of rpm incentives.

Abstract

The prominent Babies R Us decision (McDonough et al., v. Toys R US, Inc., 2009) was the first to explore the economic consequences of resale price maintenance after the Supreme Court’s Leegin Decision. Previously, litigation concerned the presence or absence of an agreement; but that changed with the new jurisprudence which instead emphasized the restraint’s direct anti-competitive effects. While the district court’s decision in the Babies R Us case rested on the factual circumstances of the case, it did not have before it an economic model through which those facts could be integrated. This paper offers such a mode, the predicates of which are drawn from the case. The conclusions that are drawn from the model are fully consistent with the court’s decision

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Leegin Decision, RPM Incentives, Dominant Distributors
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L4 - Antitrust Issues and Policies > L42 - Vertical Restraints ; Resale Price Maintenance ; Quantity Discounts

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