Microeconomics › Section K · Monopoly and antitrust policy › Topic K.2
Regulating anticompetitive behavior
Merger review asks what a market might become; conduct law asks what firms are actually doing. Cartel agreements are flatly illegal - but a wide grey belt of 'restrictive practices' sits between competition and collusion, and the law's hardest work happens there.
In this topic
- From mergers to conduct
- Monopoly itself is not the crime
- The grey belt: restrictive practices
- Exclusive dealing
- Tying and bundling
- Predatory pricing
- Worked example: is this price predatory?
- Worked example: judging a tying allegation
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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