Merger simulation is growing in importance as a tool to evaluate the unilateral competitive effects of mergers. This …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …

This paper focuses on the class of legal rules that governs intellectual property rights: the antitrust limits imposed … on patent settlements. The paper discusses the benefits and costs of settlements and explains why antitrust limits on …. This paper explores a simple antitrust rule governing settlements of intellectural property disputes: a settlement cannot …

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 …

Three years ago, the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission revised their Horizontal Merger Guidelines to … articulate in greater detail how they would treat claims of efficiencies associated with horizontal mergers: claims that are … experience under the revised Guidelines, including several litigated mergers, and based on economic principles drawn from …

Three years ago, the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission revised their Horizontal Merger Guidelines to … articulate in greater detail how they would treat claims of efficiencies associated with horizontal mergers: claims that are … experience under the revised Guidelines, including several litigated mergers, and based on economic principles drawn from …

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 …