We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …

The Microsoft antitrust case focused public attention on the role of antitrust enforcement in preserving the forces of … this paper, we examine whether innovation has displaced short-term price effects as the focus of antitrust enforcement by … have been consistent with the 1995 DOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property [IP Guidelines …

E-commerce may prove a double-edged sword for antitrust enforcement. While the internet massively increases the … potential size of the relevant market for any antitrust investigation, thereby reducing the need for antitrust activity, it also … opens firms up to protectionist uses of antitrust by foreign authorities using an economic effects rule for jurisdiction. An …

antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of wireless technologies, we conclude by … the wave of mergers in the Telecommunications and cable industries. …

to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust enforcement authorities like the Department of Justice and the Federal …

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity …. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on …

the basis of economic theory and evidence. I first discuss how the economics of antitrust has developed over the years …, with the intention of characterizing the intellectual inheritance of 1990s’ antitrust regulators. Within this context, I … economic science. On the basis of these arguments, antitrust regulators should pause and reconsider the theoretical and …