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- Title
QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ANTITRUST LITIGATION.
- Authors
Rubinfeld, Daniel L.; Steiner, Peter O.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of quantitative statistical methods in antitrust litigation. In the case Pacific Mailing Equipment Corp. v. Pitney Bowes, economic theory was used to state competing hypotheses which can be distinguished using direct empirical evidence. The supply shortage hypothesis was refuted by the lawyers of the defendant. Bowes presented to the court data from the Dealer Availability List. The jury decided in favor of the defendant despite the assumption of the existence of monopoly power, and the practices of trade-ins and scrapping. In the ampicillin litigation, hypothesis testing in a multiple regression framework led to useful tests for violation. Econometric forecasting tools, meanwhile, were instructive in the plywood case.
- Subjects
ANTITRUST law; STATISTICS; PACIFIC Mailing Equipment Corp.; PITNEY Bowes Inc.; LEGAL evidence; REGRESSION analysis; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1983, Vol 46, Issue 4, p69
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191595