We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of … economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states targeted by DOJ antitrust lawsuits to outcomes of the same industry in … other states that were not targeted. We document that DOJ antitrust enforcement actions permanently increase employment by 5 …

Antitrust enforcement in the United States has declined since the 1960s. Building on several new datasets, we argue … antitrust law in confirmation hearings. We find little evidence that academic ideas played an important role in the decline of … antitrust enforcement except where they coincided with the interests of big business, which appears to have exercised influence …

Using detailed data from the Bundesliga, Germany's top soccer league, our analysis of how crowd pressure affects the …

This paper uses play-by-play accounts of virtually all regular season National Football League games for 1998-2000 to …

that has rapidly become influential for antitrust policy. We explain that the empirical evidence relating to concentration … provide a basis for dramatic changes in antitrust policy. To the contrary, in many respects the evidence indicates that the … interventions that can enable antitrust enforcement policy to better promote and protect competition. Throughout the paper, we …

. Our findings inform the debate over whether antitrust enforcement has been lax …

overcome these difficulties by studying European football (soccer) clubs during 1990-2020. Detailed microdata from this setting …

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …