Some legal academics have claimed that ‘machine collusion’ – tacit collusion generated by self-learning pricing algorithms without human involvement - is a real threat that will go uncheck by current antitrust. Half a decade after these claims received wide publicity the only evidence are...

Since 1979, when the first antidumping case against China was initiated by the European Union, the EU has lodged nearly 90 antidumping proceedings against China by the end of 2000. China by now, has become the country most accused of dumping by the EU. Most of the antidumping suits have led to...

There are very few industries that can attract the attention of Congress, multiple federal and state agencies, consumer groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops have. Of course, with intense interest from...

The paper examines the Third Party Access right embodied in the European Electricity and Gas Directives (2003/54/EC and 2003/55/EC), in the context of the recent cases decided by the European Court of Justice. First, the legal concept of the access right as a right ancillary to an energy supply...

Digital platforms operate in multisided markets providing services through the internet to two or more distinct groups of users, between which there are indirect network effects. Direct network effects are frequently present within each group. Therefore, online platforms usually present both...

We analyze the welfare effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly if the antitrust agency applies a consumer surplus standard. We derive conditions such that otherwise price-increasing mergers become externality-free by the use of remedial divestitures. In this...