We requested comment on any anti-competitive effects of the proposals.

Both propose legislation aimed at dealing with anti-competitive effects rather than the form of an agreement.

Concerns also arise over anti-competitive effects and consequences due to:

We did not receive any comments regarding any anti-competitive effects of the proposal.

Their opinions matter because they are likely to be consulted by Federal agencies scrutinizing the deal for potentially anti-competitive effects.

However, anti-competitive effects are likely to be less severe the smaller is the subset of competing firms who join the collaborative programme.

The Department of Transportation itself appears to have had some questions about the anti-competitive effects the proposed merger might have.

A number of commenters expressed concern that the definition of the term "audit committee financial expert" may have anti-competitive effects.

Whether a vertical agreement actually restricts competition and whether in that case the benefits outweigh the anti-competitive effects will often depend on the market structure.

They might, for example, get a better response from the Justice Department, whose job it is to be skeptical of the possible anti-competitive effects of such combinations.

Therefore, the effect of economies of scale is to exacerbate the anti-competitive effects of a change in the dominant firms' conjectures.

Mr. Shannon said that he had been concerned with the anti-competitive effects of one company owning both Jordan Marsh and Filene's.

Even without the merger, which is still subject to approval by shareholders and by regulators concerned about possible anti-competitive effects, Mr. Condit has his hands full.

Company executives said, though, that they had already satisfied Alaskan authorities on any anti-competitive effects from the deal by agreeing to reduce their combined ownership of oil production.

Section 23(a)(2) of the Exchange Act72 requires us to consider the anti-competitive effects of any rules that we adopt under the Exchange Act.

The Commission will need to be satisfied that the economic benefits to the market and the consumer will outweigh any anti-competitive effects (see Chapters 5 and 6).

As a result many inconsequential or even pro-competitive agreements are caught up, while others that have anti-competitive effects may be drafted in a way designed to avoid the law.

In particular, inevitable corollaries of the patent system, such as restriction of creative freedom, users’ rights or legal insecurity and anti-competitive effects, must be kept within reasonable limits’.

That decision reversed a 2003 call on the question which decided that the trade-offs between the "pro-competitive and anti-competitive effects" of exclusive contracts were too close to call.

The Supreme Court ruling allows California's suit to proceed, and the state will now have to prove at a trial its assertion that the merger has serious anti-competitive effects.

The comparison of the anti-competitive effects of this aid with other types of aid, if we analyse it soberly, is something of an insult to the intelligence.

Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust issues, said the consent decree issued today would remedy the "anti-competitive effects" of the proposed deal.

The company said it had taken the actions to provide the commission with information on the anti-competitive effects of Georgia-Pacific's proposed $58-a-share offer to merge with Great Northern Nekoosa.

At the same time the Commission must be satisfied that any anti-competitive effects resulting from such a rule are inherent to the pursuit of its objective and are proportionate to its achievement.

Neither United States airlines nor the Pentagon, which represent the biggest customers of a combined Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, have said they are concerned about anti-competitive effects of such a merger.