Government and Business

Case Study Homework Assignment(HW 4)
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Material:For this assignment, please refer to the link to WSJ and Bloomberg that I send you via e-mail:
€¢ U.S. Judge Rules Apple Colluded on E-Books-WSJ
€¢ Apple Faces Damages Trial Over E-Book Antitrust Violation-Bloomberg
Assignment:An outline for the case study is given below. For each section of the outline, write a couple of sentences that describe and summarize the material in plain English. The Assignment is due on Wednesday, July 31st.

Format: Please type in an outline format. Please turn in each case assignment separately. Please turn in hard copies.

Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Product Market Definition
4. Why this market is important to Apple even though it accounts only 10% of revenues?
5. Demand interrelationships
6. Anticompetitive Consequences
a. Market Concentration
b. Efficiencies
c. Entry

7. Coordinated Effects
a. Pricing
b. Capacity
8. Outcome