Economic and legal issues in competition, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and the cost of raising children [electronic resource] / edited by James Langenfeld.

Plus factors in price fixing : insightful or anachronistic? / Malcolm B. Coate -- Refusal to deal and investment in product quality / Stephen Martin -- Hicks-Marshall conditions and defining antitrust markets for intermediate goods / James Langenfeld ... [et al.]-- The problem of hindsight bias in fraudulent conveyance cases : a review of possible <U+201c>market-based<U+201d> solutions / Anand Goel, Sumon Mazumdar -- Franchisees' resale price policy facing legal, contractual and professional constraints : insights from European and French perspectives / Guy Basset, Rozenn Perrigot -- Different rules of legal-cost allocation and patent hold-up / Elisabetta Ottoz, Franco Cugno -- The strategic use of licensing commitments in a standardization context / Henry Delcamp, Yann Me<U+0301>nie<U+0300>re -- Cost sharing and bankruptcy law orientation / Nicolae Stef -- The monetary cost of raising children / William S. Comanor, Mark Sarro, R. Mark Rogers.

This volume addresses a variety of topics where economic concepts are intertwined with important legal and policy issues in North America and Europe. Five articles involve analyses of competition issues, including economic plus factors in price fixing cases, the impact of refusals to deal on product quality, and market definition for intermediate goods. There are also articles on legal -cost allocation and patent hold ups, the strategic use of licensing commitments, and cost sharing's impact on bankruptcy. Finally, there is a very detailed empirical analysis of the monetary cost of raising children, which has implications for policies of the United States Department of Agriculture.