Most late 19th-century US economists gave a rather cool welcome to the Sherman Act (1890), but not to the Clayton and FTC Acts (1914). A large literature has identified several explanations for this attitude, calling into play the relation between big business and competition, a non-neoclassical...

This study discusses neomerchantalism and limited money supply policy. Neomerchantalism is to use national currency in international trade. It is appropriate for neighbour countries. Merchantalism exists in global economy during 15th-17th centuries. It is free trade. In globalism era, monetary...

The Ph.D. dissertation, submitted to LUISS “Guido Carli” University of Rome in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economic Analysis of Competition Law (XXV cicle), is the result of a scientific research in the field of the economic analysis of...

Europe was where research on general equilibrium models with rationing (GEMR) gained traction. The goal of our article is to explain how and why. We show that research on GEMR took off and developed in France and Belgium from the mid-1970s before expanding all around Europe. We also show that...

This is aimed to be a book manual and a book manual is always for students and other curious people. Economics of integration is sometimes called ‘European economics’, as improperly. But the real problem is elsewhere. A manual is likely to contain what everybody agrees as correct. Firstly,...

The goal of the paper is to investigate the extent of the influence of American antitrust tradition on the foundation and early years of European competition policy. This as part of a wider research program aiming at assessing the role of economic theory in the development of antitrust law and...

Brands and brand management have become a central feature of the modern economy and a staple of business theory and business practice. Contrary to the law’s conception of trademarks, brands are used to indicate far more than source and/or quality. This volume begins the process of broadening...

Assessments of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are limited to 20th century ideas of conquest/colonialism. They are tied to ideological frameworks of human history where ill-defined concepts of liberal democracy and totalitarian states are juxtaposed as if there were established typologies of...

We present a new type of unsupervised learning problem in which we find a small set of representative regions that approximates a larger dataset. These regions may be presented to a practitioner along with additional information in order to help the practitioner explore the data set. An...

This paper proposes a methodology to anticipate market risk using qualitative and quantitative variables that capture communicative and financial activity within equity networks. During periods of crisis as market risk increases, companies tend to behave alike, and the number of news and common...