Innovation and Monopoly Leveraging

Fisher, Franklin M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.247514

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Innovation and Monopoly Leveraging

32 Pages Posted: 25 Oct 2000

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Franklin M. Fisher

Deceased

Abstract

This paper, written when Fisher was preparing for his testimony in Microsoft, discusses the circumstances in which monopoly "leveraging" makes sense as an anti-competitive act. Three cases are discussed and contrasted: The IBM case of the 1970's; the Computer Reservation System Cases of the 1980's; and the Microsoft case. Fisher was a principal economic witness in all of them, for the defense in IBM and for plaintiffs in the other two cases.

JEL Classification: L4, K21

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Fisher, Franklin M., Innovation and Monopoly Leveraging. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=247514 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.247514