
Oliver E. Williamson
American economist and professorWikipedia
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Sep 15, 2026
Steve Salop on Post-Chicago Antitrust, Raising Rivals’ Costs, and Modern Economic Analysis
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11:03Steven SalopGUEST
And so that was all floating around.
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11:07Steven SalopGUEST
And I taught at Penn one year when Ollie Williamson was away.
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11:12Steven SalopGUEST
and read his article on the Pennington case, which was all about raising the wage rate as a barrier to entry.
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11:19Steven SalopGUEST
And then one day, Dave Sheffman walked into my office and said, in the oil industry, maybe what they're doing is raising costs.
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11:47Joseph ConiglioHOST
Yeah, I definitely think it's become mainstream.
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11:49Joseph ConiglioHOST
I think regardless of who you talk to, everybody accepts now that raising rivals costs or closure is a key part of the analysis.
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11:59Joseph ConiglioHOST
And it's funny you mentioned Williamson, because when I think of sort of the other way in which those two strands, sort of the Chicago strand and the information economics strand meet, I think his work on transaction cost economics is also in a way interpreting that about how vertical agreements can deal with incomplete information.
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12:15Steven SalopGUEST
He did everything.