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 …

Applying principles of merger evaluation to the health care industry in general, and to hospital markets in particular … our findings for antitrust policy …

We develop a new theory of the firm where asset owners sometimes want to change partners ex-post. The model identifies …

This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number …

We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden … accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in … American history occurred, and his administration did not attempt to use antitrust laws to restrain any of those mergers. His …