Methodology of Assessing the Costs of Social Welfare for the Antimonopoly Control

Abstract

In practice of antitrust cases and competition policy antitrust authority often used as argument gain / costs of consumer's and gain / costs of competitors in relevant market. The main indicators of valuation of social gain / costs in antitrust trials are price, quantity, costs of firms in the market. In some cases, the impact of transaction costs is assessed too. But results of this research represented that important element of estimation of costs / benefits from monopolization can become new method based on economic and financial indices of the industry.