competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national … cartels that renders lower profits and higher consumer rents than would have been the case with harmonization of the antitrust …

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …

this example, we identify and evaluate several doctrinal approaches to establishing antitrust liability for anticompetitive …

The goal of antitrust policy is to protect and promote a vigorous competitive process. Effective rivalry spurs firms to … to the antitrust treatment of horizontal mergers and of exclusionary conduct by dominant firms. A merger between rivals …

We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden … American history occurred, and his administration did not attempt to use antitrust laws to restrain any of those mergers. His … anticompetitive behavior. We find that firms with greater vulnerability to antitrust enforcement saw greater declines in their …

In this article, I explain the inadequacy of our current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of antitrust … the effectiveness of antitrust policy. There are two types of data one requires in order to perform such an analysis. One … with the first type that a reliable analysis of antitrust policy can be carried out. There is a need both to collect the …

Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have …, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing. Antitrust promoted competition without favoring special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …