This Essay provides an overview of U.S. antitrust merger practice in addressing efficiencies both in terms of actual … debates regarding shifts in antitrust merger enforcement are without empirical support. This Response addresses each of these … instance, the article does not discuss the empirical work addressing when the agencies use efficiencies, the role antitrust …

The appropriate role of merger efficiencies remains unresolved in US antitrust law and policy. The Patient Protection … challenges for antitrust. Most hospital merger cases focus on cost based efficiencies, as does most of the academic empirical … quality analysis both in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and in antitrust case law. In doing so, the essay identifies …

Merger remedies are an area of increasing complexity around the world. They are also an area of increased focus by … view of how high tech markets work in their merger remedies and, by implication, dominance cases — especially considering …

preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing …

methods based on survey data of antitrust practitioners on merger issues to better understand institutional choice and the …This article makes two primary contributions to the antitrust literature. First, it identifies the dynamic … interrelationship across antitrust institutions. Second, it provides new empirical evidence from practitioner surveys to explore how the …

the problem of a small number of published merger decisions through a unique practitioner survey of antitrust lawyers … the development of Chinese antitrust. These include: the welfare standard used in merger analysis, what industrial policy …This paper explores the factors that drive merger outcomes under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML). The paper overcomes …

standards in the horizontal merger guidelines. Combined, the breakdown of the antitrust regulatory sandbox threatens innovation … investment and innovation outcomes. The antitrust regulatory sandbox is generally a success, even if at the margins there are …, creates additional costs to the merger system, and chills the types of mergers that should be made. To the extent that the …

In this paper, we discuss the problem of the rule of reason and the welfare standard in antitrust. We begin with the … simple cases, the antitrust welfare standard does not matter. Beyond these simple cases, however, there are more complicated … dilemma of the implementation of proper goal of antitrust …

antitrust merger law currently works and how proposed legislative changes to antitrust may threaten the innovative VC …This paper addresses the potentially negative implications of proposed antitrust legislation on the entrepreneurial … motivations of VCs. In so doing, it identifies the drivers of entrepreneurial innovation and explain why changes to merger law may …

consultants) anticipate the critical questions and potential paths that should be addressed regarding antitrust merger risk. This … affected merger review, investments, decision making, and counsel. The surveys also offer antitrust agencies an opportunity to …Estimating antitrust risk is fundamental to identifying, proposing, and pricing deals. A more informed understanding of …