Charitable (Anti)Trust: The Role of Antitrust Regulation in the Nonprofit Sector
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Charitable (Anti)Trust: The Role of Antitrust Regulation in the Nonprofit Sector – Elizabeth A.M. Searing (Georgia State University – Andrew Young School of Policy Studies)
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to address the ambiguities in the application of anti-trust regulations to the nonprofit sector. We first survey policy tools and their diverse historical usage in nonprofit and mixed markets, specifically in professional associations, hospitals, and education. This analysis informs the development of a typology of anti-competitive nonprofit markets which is used to classify the three historical examples into eight traits. Finally, this typology is applied to three new markets – animal shelters, thrift stores, and soup kitchens – which have less in common with purely for-profit markets and have little or no discussion in antitrust literature. We find that the nonprofit form per se does not indicate an absence of anticompetitive practices or antitrust concerns; however, certain combinations of attributes – such as purely donative revenues and an absence of pricing ability – make the threat of anticompetitive practice less oppressive.
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