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Anti-Competition Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

Anne Fleming
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Abstract

Looking across the long twentieth century, this article tracks the rise and fall of one form of anti-competition regulation: the certificate of public convenience. Designed to curb “destructive competition” in certain industries, such as transportation and banking, certificate laws prevented firms from entering those industries unless they could convince regulators that they would satisfy an unmet public demand for goods or services. This history highlights how lawmakers used similar techniques in governing infrastructure and finance—two fields that are not often studied together. It also shows that state regulation both prefigured legal change at the federal level and then lagged behind it, suggesting that different dynamics have been in play at each level of governance in devising competition policy over the last century.

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competitionregulated industriesbankingfinancesmall-sum lendingtransportationfederalismtwentieth centuryUnited States
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Research Article
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Business History Review , Volume 93 , Issue 4: New Perspectives in Regulatory History , Winter 2019 , pp. 701 - 724
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2020

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Footnotes

The author thanks Laura Phillips Sawyer, Herbert Hovenkamp, and an anonymous reviewer for Business History Review for their helpful suggestions that greatly improved this piece.

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81 Neifeld, 34.

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85 New State Ice, 285 U.S. at 279.

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96 Gough, 76 A.2d at 87.

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110 Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-504, 92 Stat. 1705.

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112 Congress also adopted the Natural Gas Policy Act in 1978. Pub. L. 95-621, 92 Stat 3350.

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114 ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-88, 109 Stat. 803.

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116 Section 214 Deregulated Entry Requirements, 64 Fed. Reg. 39938-01.

117 Fischel, Rosenfield, and Stillman, “Regulation of Banks,” 331n85.

118 Act of Feb. 21, 1966, Pub. L. No. 89-356, 80 Stat. 7. See also Act of July 1, 1966, Pub. L. No. 89-485, 80 Stat. 236 (similar standard for banking holding company mergers).

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121 Rules, Policies and Procedures for Corporate Activities; Charter Policy, 45 Fed. Reg. 68605 (15 Oct. 1980). In 1991, Congress officially removed the requirement. Ricks, “Money as Infrastructure,” 820.

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124 Jones, “Origins,” 427–28.

125 “Bank Charter,” 514. For branching standards as of 1985, see Cynthia Young Reisz, “The Future of Shared Automatic Teller Networks in the Wake of Marine Midland Bank: A Call for Federal Legislation,” Vanderbilt Law Review 38 (1985): 1627. New York eliminated convenience and advantage from its branching rules in 1981. New York Laws of 1981, c. 411, § 1; New York Banking Law s. 24, 29 (2018).

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128 On competition between the states leading to rollback of regulations on financial institutions, see Fleming, City of Debtors, 229–31.

129 See Dep't of Fin. Institutions v. Wayne Bank & Tr. Co., 385 N.E.2d 482, 484 (Ind. Ct. App. 1978); and First Nat. Bank of Worland v. Fin. Institutions Bd., 616 P.2d 787, 798 (Wyo. 1980).

130 Christian A. Johnson and Tara Rice, “Assessing a Decade of Interstate Bank Branching,” Washington and Lee Law Review 65 (2008): 84–85.

131 Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-328, 108 Stat. 2338. States could opt out of Riegle-Neal, but fewer than a dozen did. Johnson and Rice, “Assessing a Decade,” 87.

132 For example, Stigler, “Theory of Economic Regulation.”

133 Sandefur, “State Competitor's Veto Laws,” 1045–46; Sandefur, Timothy, “A Public Convenience and Necessity and Other Conspiracies against Trade: A Case Study from the Missouri Moving Industry,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 24 (2014): 185Google Scholar; Bruner v. Zawacki, 997 F. Supp. 2d 691 (E.D. Ky. 2014); Munie v. Koster, 4:10CV01096AGF (E.D. Mo.) (dismissed 12 July 2012 as moot).

134 Sandefur, “Public Convenience and Necessity,” 99–100. But see Bruner, 997 F. Supp. 2d at 691. See also Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341 (1943) (shielding firms acting pursuant to a state anti-competition law from federal antitrust enforcement).

135 “Certificate of Need State Laws,” National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) website, accessed 23 Jan. 2019, http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need-state-laws.aspx.

136 See also National Commission on Consumer Finance, Consumer Credit in the United States (Washington, DC, 1972), 138.

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138 Only eleven states ultimately adopted some version of the U3C. N.M. Stat. Ann. § 58-15-5 (West 2018).

139 Ricks, “Money as Infrastructure,” 767.

140 On the importance of studying the role of the states, see Childs, William R., “State Regulators and Pragmatic Federalism in the United States, 1889–1945,” Business History Review 75, no. 4 (2001): 701–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Scheiber, Harry N., “State Law and ‘Industrial Policy’ in American Development, 1790–1987,” California Law Review 75, no. 1 (1987): 415–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

141 On this dynamic in consumer credit regulation in the 1960s and 1970s, see Fleming, City of Debtors, 217–18.