antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both …Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses …, merger laws and enforcement practices, econometric methods for analyzing prospective horizontal mergers, and evidence …

I present an overview of the antitrust literature on sports leagues, with particular emphasis on the National … the National Hockey League, as well as on sanctioning organizations such as NASCAR. I review the major antitrust court … decisions, the commentaries of the leading antitrust experts on these decisions, and the extensive sports economics literature …

antitrust and EU competition law by (selectively) including state antitrust laws as well as laws that pursue objectives … different from the antitrust laws but interfere with the aims of the antitrust laws, such as sale-below-cost statutes, car … dealer and franchise statutes, or general contract law invalidating resale price maintenance agreements ("non-antitrust laws …

Computational antitrust is a new domain of legal informatics which seeks to develop computational methods for the … automation of antitrust procedures and the improvement of antitrust analysis. The present article first introduces it, then … research agenda for the years ahead in view of providing answers to the challenges created by computational antitrust, and …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …

instrument of ministerial approval for mergers under Section 42 GWB, the Federal Minister of Economics could grant an exemption … ministerial cartel and ministerial approval for mergers, which shows that a ministerially approved cartel is likely to burden less …

overview of the economic literature on capacity and the role that capacity has played in actual antitrust and competition law …