This comment was filed with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on December 31, 2009, as "Comments Regarding … Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy" in response to the DOJ/USDA request for public comments … for the agencies' joint workshops on antitrust issues in the agricultural sector. Regarding firm size and integration, it …

groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops … have the potential to distract antitrust analysis from its core mission: protecting competition and consumer welfare. While … imperfect, the economic approach to antitrust that has generated remarkable improvements in outcomes over the last fifty years …

Dissatisfied with the mainstream antitrust jurisprudence that has emerged over the past several decades and garnered … significant force, our approach offers a more fundamental critique of the behavioral antitrust enterprise. We demonstrate that …, even under the ideal conditions described above, behavioral economics does not yet offer an antitrust-relevant theory of …

for distributors to reduce prices and may facilitate tacit or explicit collusion, both to the detriment of consumers … role for antitrust challenges to PH laws and similar anticompetitive state regulation. If states wish to reduce the social …

Mark: The Effect of Conservative Economic Analysis on U.S. Antitrust, a collection of essays devoted to challenging the … Chicago School's approach to antitrust in favor of a commitment to Post-Chicago policies. Overshot the Mark is an important … book and one that will be cited as intellectual support for a new and quot;reinvigoratedquot; antitrust enforcement regime …

This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason …

light of economic analysis: antitrust consents. In our view, competition authorities around the world should be asking … Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice have shifted dramatically toward greater reliance … upon consent decrees than upon litigation to resolve antitrust disputes. As an aid to national competition agencies …

extensive experience and expertise in consumer protection, antitrust law, and economics …

realization has led to a split among courts, antitrust practitioners, and economists as to the best method to assess whether … mergers or conduct that involve platforms result in the creation or maintenance of monopoly power and violate the antitrust …, integrated market that incorporates all sides. We argue that any prima facie antitrust assessment of competitive harm must …