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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President Mckinley

Baker, Richard B. - 2018

accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in …

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Antitrust

Kaplow, Louis - 2010

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 area, we select the most relevant portions of...

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Legal Monopoly : Patents and Antitrust Litigation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-1998

Khan, B. Zorina - 2022

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

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U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?

Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022

U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...

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Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hosken, Daniel S.; Weinberg, Matthew - 2021

The challenge of effective merger enforcement is tremendous. U.S. antitrust agencies must, by statute, quickly forecast … estimating the price effects of mergers. We also describe how evidence from merger retrospectives can be used to evaluate the …

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A New Era of Midnight Mergers : Antitrust Risk and Investor Disclosures

Barrios, John Manuel; Wollmann, Thomas - 2023

, we present a method for measuring undisclosed merger activity that relies on financial accounting reporting requirements …

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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin; Vogt, William B. - 2021

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...

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The Competition between Competition Rules

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...

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Antitrust and Regulation

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007

Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing....

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Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do it

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2010

is data on the relevant market pre and post merger. The second is data on the specific predictions of the government … agencies about the market post-merger. A key point of this article is to stress how weak an analysis of only the first type of … post merger are surprisingly poor guides for analyzing merger policy. It is only when the second type of data is combined …

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