What is antitrust's role in financial regulation after the financial crisis? (David S. Evans)

We extend our thanks to this excellent set of contributors for an insightful collection of articles. David S. Evans (Editor-in-Chief)

The contributors to this issue well deserve thanks from the editorial team and our readers.

Introduction by the editor-in-chief to the inaugural issue of <i>Competition Policy International</i>.

This Autumn 2009 issue marks several anniversaries; it is the tenth volume of CPI, the end of our fifth year, and the last issue we will publish in the first decade of the 21st century.

This paper examines the evolution of the use of economics in EC competition policy matters and the reforms in the use of economics that occurred in the latter part of EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti’s term (1999-2004).

This paper provides a brief introduction to the economics of two-sided platforms and the implications for antitrust analysis.

Over 90 percent of antitrust litigation in the United States is filed by private plaintiffs, sometimes as class actions, and always seeking treble damages. As Judge Douglas Ginsburg and Leah Brannon have observed in these pages, such cases have been the source of most of the fodder that the...

A colloquy of articles on the European Court of First Instance (CFI) judgment in <i>Microsoft Corporation v. European Commission</i> (EC <i>Microsoft</i>) begins the Spring 2008 issue of <i>Competition Policy International</i>.

The antitrust laws of the United States have, from their inception, allowed firms to acquire significant market power, to charge prices that reflect that market power, and to enjoy supra-competitive returns. This article shows that this policy, which was established by the U.S. Congress and...