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produced calls for antitrust enforcement. In response, others have critiqued the airline and banking studies and argued that … antitrust law cannot tackle any anticompetitive effects from horizontal shareholding. I show that new economic proofs and …, but also under Sherman Act §1. In fact, the historic trusts that were the core target of antitrust law were horizontal …
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The paper aims to contribute to the reflection on both the role that personal data has acquired in the mostly dominant business models of the digital economy and how this is likely to pose substantive challenges to EU competition law. After sixty years since its foundation, getting an exhaustive...
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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 … mergers. In Section IV, we turn our attention to the creation of countervailing power through joint ventures or mergers. In …
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sword, the European Commission’s decision on this issue will have far reaching implications for future antitrust cases …
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The Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991. This accelerated a trend toward both the development of market economies and competition law to protect those economies. No one could have predicted that within twenty years most of the world’s trading economies would have adopted recognizable...
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This article provides evidence from the airline industry on the competitive effects of grants of antitrust immunity by … the statutory authority to approve and immunize from the U.S. antitrust laws, under a public interest standard, joint … 2005-2011 shows that recent grants of antitrust immunity to international airline alliances affecting U.S.-E.U. passengers …
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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 …
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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 …
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Computational antitrust promises not only to help antitrust agencies preside over increasingly complex and dynamic … markets, but also to provide companies with the tools to assess and enforce compliance with antitrust laws. If research in the … space has been primarily dedicated to supporting antitrust agencies, this article fills the gap by offering an innovative …
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The rise of big tech firms has steered contemporary antitrust law and policy debates toward concerns about leveraging … use of randomization-based mechanisms in the design of regulation and antitrust remedies related to platform competition …
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