TY  - JOUR
AU  - Carlton,Dennis W.
TI  - A General Analysis of Exclusionary Conduct and Refusal to Deal - Why Aspen and Kodak are Misguided
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8105
PY  - 2001
Y2  - February 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8105
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8105.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Dennis W. Carlton
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 847/217-6000
Fax: 312/322-0262
E-Mail: dennis.carlton@chicagobooth.edu
AB  - This paper analyzes the question:  When should a single firm have a duty to deal with another?  The paper uses a series of economic models to answer the question, assuming the goal is to prevent harm to competition, and applies the economic analysis to the leading cases to show when antitrust enforcement is appropriate and when it is not. The analysis shows that, to prevent harm to competition, the role for antitrust should be quite limited and that two leading cases, Aspen and Kodak, represent a dangerous direction for antitrust policy.
ER  -