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Still, the proposed rule should deter blatantly anticompetitive instances of RPM, particularly since successful challenges will result in treble damages, which are not justified by the clandestine nature of the offense and thus result in some measure of overdeterrence.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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Still, the proposed rule should deter blatantly anticompetitive instances of RPM, particularly since successful challenges will result in treble damages, which are not justified by the clandestine nature of the offense and thus result in some measure of overdeterrence.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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Given that most instances of RPM are procompetitive [as I explain in the article], that the costs of false convictions generally exceed those of false acquittals [as Judge Easterbrook has argued and as I discuss in the article], and that damages-trebling for RPM violations already creates a measure of overdeterrence, the slightly pro-defendant proposed rule would seem to strike the proper balance for minimizing error costs.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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Given that most instances of RPM are procompetitive [as I explain in the article], that the costs of false convictions generally exceed those of false acquittals [as Judge Easterbrook has argued and as I discuss in the article], and that damages-trebling for RPM violations already creates a measure of overdeterrence, the slightly pro-defendant proposed rule would seem to strike the proper balance for minimizing error costs.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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Still, the proposed rule should deter blatantly anticompetitive instances of RPM, particularly since successful challenges will result in treble damages, which are not justified by the clandestine nature of the offense and thus result in some measure of overdeterrence.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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Given that most instances of RPM are procompetitive [as I explain in the article], that the costs of false convictions generally exceed those of false acquittals [as Judge Easterbrook has argued and as I discuss in the article], and that damages-trebling for RPM violations already creates a measure of overdeterrence, the slightly pro-defendant proposed rule would seem to strike the proper balance for minimizing error costs.
TRUTH ON THE MARKET 2008
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