Monday, January 26, 2009
On the Paternity of a Market Delineation Approach
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol
F.M. Scherer of Harvard - Kennedy School of Government provides an interesting historical retrospective On the Paternity of a Market Delineation Approach.
ABSTRACT: This paper by Harvard University’s F. M. Scherer traces the historical antecedants of the 1982 Merger Guidelines SSNIP (small but significant and non-transitory increase in price) approach to market definition. Surveying the prior literature, it recognizes that the person believed to have proposed the approach was Morris Adelman. The author claims a second-mover slot for his testimony in a 1972 brewing merger case, the IBM case, and the Marathon-Mobil case of 1981, along with a 1980 restatement of market definition principles in his industrial organization textbook. Intermediate contributions are also surveyed.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2009/01/on-the-paternit.html