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"Chairman Pitofsky"s timely book teaches us important truths about antitrust. This book convincingly rebuts the Chicago School approach to economics and competition policy while reminding us that the antitrust laws, when effectively applied, are robust tools that enhance competition and benefit consumers. Chairman Pitofsky and the other distinguished contributors provide a badly needed counterpoint to the excesses of Chicago School economic theory that has led to an overly hands-off and lifeless approach to antitrust enforcement in recent years. This excellent volume should be studied by all those who care about competition policy."--Senator Herb Kohl

"Into the grand antitrust debate between Warren Court advocates, on the one hand, and the treatises and court opinions out of the Chicago School tradition, on the other, comes finally a voice of reasoned moderation--or rather a full-throated chorus of such voices. With a clear-eyed regard for the paramount importance of consumer welfare a the central governing principle of antitrust enforcement, this collection of essays deserves to be read carefully by practitioners, academics and politicians--but especially-- and exceedingly carefully--by federal judges all across the country, not least of all by the current justices of the U.S. Supreme Court."--John Shenefield, Former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust

"When they asserted efficiency as the new benchmark of antitrust, the scholars of Chicago paved the way to very welcome developments. But efficiency is more and more treated as an ideology and therefore it leads to forgetting the facts and restoring presumptions. If avoiding false positives becomes the priority of antitrust, how many real negatives will receive undeserved immunity? The questions raised by this book are no less timely than those raised by those scholars forty years ago and deserve no less attention from practitioners, academics and judges all over the world. I am confident that some copies of it will also be available in the library of the U.S. Supreme Court."--Giuliano Amato, Former Prime Minister of Italy

"This collection of essays--by lawyers and economists, many of whom are former antitrust enforcement officials--will generously reward a close read by anyone who is interested in the current intellectual state of antitrust thinking. As largely a critique of recent legal decisions and of recent enforcement, these essays are likely to form the basis for new directions for antitrust in the coming decade."--Lawrence J. White, Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business

"Taken as a whole, the book makes a forceful argument that the many positive contributions of the Chicago school have been overshadowed by an increasingly conservative laissez faire view of antitrust in the federal agencies and the courts. The results of this change have been an emphasis of theory over empirical evidence and a deliberate choice among confl icting economic theories and evidence, rather than a consensus about that theory and evidence. For me, this was the best and most provocative antitrust book of 2008." --Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law

How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark is about the rise and recent fall of American antitrust. It is a collection of 15 essays, almost all expressing a deep concern that conservative economic analysis is leading judges and enforcement officials toward an approach that will ultimately harm consumer welfare.

For the past 40 years or so, U.S. antitrust has been dominated intellectually by an unusually conservative style of economic analysis. Its advocates, often referred to as "The Chicago School," argue that the free market (better than any unelected band of regulators) can do a better job of achieving efficiency and encouraging innovation than intrusive regulation. The cutting edge of Chicago School doctrine originated in academia and was popularized in books by brilliant and innovative law professors like Robert Bork and Richard Posner. Oddly, a response to that kind of conservative doctrine may be put together through collections of scores of articles but until now cannot be found in any one book. This collection of essays is designed in part to remedy that situation.

The chapters in this book were written by academics, former law enforcers, private sector defense lawyers, Republicans and Democrats, representatives of the left, right and center. Virtually all agree that antitrust enforcement today is better as a result of conservative analysis, but virtually all also agree that there have been examples of extreme interpretations and misinterpretations of conservative economic theory that have led American antitrust in the wrong direction. The problem is not with conservative economic analysis but with those portions of that analysis that have "overshot the mark" producing an enforcement approach that is exceptionally generous to the private sector. If the scores of practices that traditionally have been regarded as anticompetitive are ignored, or not subjected to vigorous enforcement, prices will be higher, quality of products lower, and innovation diminished. In the end consumers will pay.

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A major deregulation and restructuring of electric utility sector started in early 90s with a goal to increase the amount of competition in wholesale and retail electricity markets. The expectation was to lead to a range of benefits for ‘electricity consumers’, including lower prices and access to a wider array of retail services than were previously available. What we can see today in 2021 is exceptionally high prices, bankrupted smaller players and powerful oligopoly and extremely unfortunate consumers. The question is what have gone wrong and what we can do to fix it.

Let’s start with a short introduction to electricity price. The electricity price consists of two main components: 1. Grid 2. Retail, as show in the figure below. The grid business is a natural monopoly, and it is still highly regulated. But the retails business has become a free market since deregulation, and anyone can trade electricity in a financial market.

Electricity retail price in Europe after deregulation is set hourly in a free market environment. The generators can bid at each hour on how much they can generate at which price level. These bids build a supply curve as shown graphically by green graph in the figure below. The demand (red graph) is normally steady with minimal elasticity due to increase in storage, micro generation, and home automation. The price is settled based on the bidding units and the demand curve. There is always one single generator which is marginal generator which will set the price.

Therefore, in a perfect free market, a high electricity price can be results of high demand and/or high bidding price of marginal generator. This year, we have both! The demand has been considerably increased due to cold temperatures, increasing economic activities due to COVID recovery and work from home policies. In addition, the bidding price of marginal generators (gas turbines) has been significantly increased due to two main reasons:

In many European countries, due to complexity of bidding processes in large geographical areas, the country is divided to price zone areas. In Sweden, there are 4 price zone areas, and, in each zone, there is an independent hourly price which is purely a financial measure, and it is not related to bottlenecks in the power grid. This is a major challenge that the physical and financial electricity market have almost no correlation. In the European Union, flow-based market coupling is the target model to compute correct trading capacities between markets, while approximating physical grid bottlenecks.

As described above, the electricity price is set by the bidding price of the marginal generator. This is normally gas turbines with high prices. Renewable generation units normally bid at very low prices or even negative prices. However, one of the causes of high bidding price of gas generation units is soaring carbon price. This is the only case the energy transition can be blamed for high electricity prices.

We need a policy that those who caused climate change should take responsibility and pay for the carbon price. It is not right to put all the carbon price on final consumers.

Deregulation in electric utility sector happened as part of larger trend of free market and privatization. However, we still see the market is dominant by oligopoly of large corporate which large part of those corporate are state-owned. One can argument in the distribution or transmission, state-owned companies can perform better due to intensely regulated environment, however, in the retail market, I see no point of a state-owned company to be a dominant player and expect the smaller players to compete easily.

At least, part of the carbon price should be covered by the generators. In addition, the cost of marginal generators which cause high electricity price should be covered by the state not to impose high prices on consumers. We are overshooting the mark of privatization and deregulation while forgetting the main goal is not to create and protect oligopolies but to protect consumers rights and provide better service.

As described above, in each country, there electricity price is set in different zones (like 4 zones in Sweden). The zones have minimal connection to the bottlenecks in the power grid. This is an oversimplification of the market design and does not incentivize investment in the power grid where it is needed.

The nodal electricity pricing happens when no exchange and transactions are managed by the Operator through a mechanism. Individual generators submit their offers taking into account current prices, costs of future investments and the place of energy supply and consumption (nodal cost). A system can make electricity price locally and incentivize local electricity generation to settle prices. The natural technology for such a system is blockchain.

This is a hot topic now if you change your electricity contract to get a fixed price or still keep the market price. My general advice is to still keep market price but try to manage/optimize your consumption. You need to know that your electricity supplier have the best forecast of electricity price and they offer your fixed prices based on the worst-case scenario for them. So, the likelihood of winning in a fixed price contract for a normal consumer is minimal. However, if you insist to turn on your washing machine, dishwasher, and vacuum cleaner at 18:00 and not to change your electricity consumption behavior, maybe it is best to get a fixed price contract.

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Recent Examples on the Web No one knows if these rapid increases will overshootand push the economy into a recession, causing markets to fall and unemployment.

One risk, O’Leary notes, it that the Fed may overshooton interest rates because the drop in housing prices, which takes 16 to 18 months to be correctly reflected in CPI data, is not being taken into account.

Markets are skittish that the Fed"s actions — which take a while to feed through the system — could overshoot, sending the US economy into a prolonged and deep recession.

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Prescription drug costs never seem to stop rising. Given this reality, should physicians consider the potential cost to the patient before recommending a drug? And should they consider health insurance as well?

It’s easy to assume that most doctors will always recommend drugs on the basis of highest potency, especially when their patients are insured; and that they don’t care about the impact on an insurance company’s finances.

But these off-the-cuff assumptions are wrong, based on responses to a recent Medscape report that presents common ethical scenarios physicians face. Respondents’ comments showed that many physicians are very concerned about the financial implications not only for their patients, but also for third-party payers.

Nearly 4 in 5 physicians told Medscape that physicians should consider a patient’s potential cost of ownership before recommending a drug. Her additional comments made the point forcefully.

“An unfilled prescription is worthless,” said an Oregon paramedic. “I always check insurance status and while I always prescribe the best medication for the condition, there are often cheaper options. If necessary, I will discuss this with the patient.”

“There’s no point in prescribing something a patient won’t get,” agreed a New Jersey public health doctor. “Adjust drugs, choose generics or research alternative sources of payment.”

Many physicians said their colleagues should research and prepare for a patient consultation that includes both medication options and their potential cost to the patient. “If the patient cannot afford a very expensive drug, you must be willing to prescribe an alternative so that the patient can be treated,” recommended a Florida pediatrician.

But remember, a Colorado pathologist advised that while “most over-the-counter and generic alternatives are good and equivalent” to brand-name drugs, “there are a few that aren’t.” It is the physician’s decision to make a recommendation as to which path to take for the patient’s benefit.”

However, not all physicians felt obliged to provide patients with a cost-oriented drug. “Patients should get the best medicine for their disease,” said a Texas neurologist bluntly.

When asked whether the potential cost of recommending a prescription to health insurance companies should be weighed, a small proportion of physicians said no to Medscape (46% vs. 35% yes).

While one California family doctor’s philosophy was, “Take care of the patient—and the payer isn’t the patient,” many other doctors have been more reticent in their comments to insurance companies.

A Maryland internal medicine physician believed that “economic considerations are important in prescribing” for both patients and payers. “It’s a way to help contain some of the medical costs.”

“If we remain blind to costs and try to live in the ivory tower of medicine, sooner or later everyone will be affected,” warned a Pennsylvania gynecologist. “There isn’t an infinite amount of money in the system.”

Physicians should recommend patients the most effective medications, said one Rhode Island doctor, “and work with the third-party payer as appropriate to achieve optimal results.” We need to stop seeing the payer as the enemy and they need to be willing to discuss with doctors and work better together!”

"While this can be done for a short while, overshoot ultimately leads to the depletion of resources, such as the forests, oceans, and agricultural land."

In our experiment we found that people tend to undershoot when they believe that undershooting is more energy efficient and overshoot when they believe that overshooting is more energy efficient.

This difference operator typically causes ringing near waveform transitions [5] and, thereby, may increase the amplitudes of overshoot, undershoot, and other waveform aberrations.

These signals display good rise and fall times, controlled overshoot and undershoot, and an acceptable amount of jitter, as evidenced by the width of each eye opening.

BRI set to overshoot profit target--State-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the country"s largest retail bank, optimistic that its previously set net profit of Rp1.6 trillion (US$188.2 million) for this year will be overshot.

Long hitters who make the fairway with their drives may be tempted to go for the green in two, but to do so they must carry an 80-yard pond and he sure not to overshoot the green.

Penalties are calculated according to a complicated sliding-scale formula contained in Regulation (EC) 1591/2001, which increases with the production overshoot. This means that Greek farmers will see their support prices lowered further than Spanish farmers.

To ensure melting efficiency, the furnace"s automatic control system raises the temperature to the set point with minimal overshoot. Then power is cut automatically to 5% to keep the metal hot, reducing the holding energy costs.

OECD projections, which take account of actual price movements in the first ten months, suggest an overshoot of around 10 per cent in 2000 due to contracted increases in some wage and price sectors (most importantly rents), as well as the overhang from high inflation in the early months of the year.

September contract wheat made a new record for the season, 95 3/4c, at the Produce Exchange yesterday, but it closed at 94c, one quarter of a cent net loss for the day, the closing quotation for Wednesday having been 94 1/4c. The scope of trading on Wednesday in the leading future was 95 5/8c to 91 1/4c; that of yesterday was 95 3/4c to 93 1/4c. View Full Article in Timesmachine »