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Has the antitrust arsenal run out of novel theories or weapons? Think again. Recent scholarship has come to challenge … conventional wisdom with the latest target of antitrust imagination being institutional investors, including diversified index … been rapid and widespread. Antitrust enforcers started looking closer at certain industries as well as investigating the …
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The literature shows that horizontal shareholding engenders significant anticompetitive effects and that no suitable instrument exists within European competition law which reliably and effectively can be applied to curtail such intrinsic effects. This Article analyses several proposals which...
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adoption of "platform" or "two-sided market" theory in American antitrust, and in theoretical efforts like the one on which it … is based. A rarely discussed idea built in to American antitrust is that, as far as the law is concerned, markets are all … neglect of them is largely responsible for the failure of modern antitrust. I show the serious consequences of that mistake by …
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principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger … concentration indices for screening out unproblematic from potentially harmful mergers. The incremental effect of a merger taking … of the merger deal. Accordingly, merger enforcement should shift towards more fact-specific analysis and antitrust …
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transactions. It is clear that China's merger control regime is becoming the third major antitrust hurdle for large, cross …-border transactions, along with the U.S. and the EU. This article summarizes the AML, reviews provisions relating to mergers and … merger control, to be in the antitrust mainstream …
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uprising is that present-day antitrust policy, forged in the rusty era of steel, oil, and cars, is now obsolete. We are in the … age of information, which ipso facto calls for new rules. A second animating theme is that the antitrust thinking of the … this new antitrust ground their arguments by returning to the historical roots of American antitrust policy. My contention …
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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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Where do competition, antitrust and private equity intersect? Once antitrust’s favored child compared to strategic …: financial investors in general, from BlackRock to Blackstone, have come into the antitrust spotlight. Being a minority financial … investor is no longer reason for antitrust immunity. Economic theory and competition policy have been shifting. Common …
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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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between platforms and aggregators for antitrust law …
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