Question: What is the Real and Proper Antitrust Welfare Standard? Answer: The True Consumer Welfare Standard

Salop, Steven C.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1491302

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Question: What is the Real and Proper Antitrust Welfare Standard? Answer: The True Consumer Welfare Standard

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Steven C. Salop

Georgetown University Law Center

Date Written: November 4, 2005

Abstract

This short article, which was submitted to the Antitrust Modernization Commission, explains why the consumer welfare standard is used by courts and is more appropriate for evaluating antitrust issues.

Keywords: antitrust

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Salop, Steven C., Question: What is the Real and Proper Antitrust Welfare Standard? Answer: The True Consumer Welfare Standard (November 4, 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1491302 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1491302