countries is long overdue: the treatment of public policies that suppress competition. Whereas the European Union (“EU”) and … to enact laws that restrain competition. Further, individual groups are largely free to lobby for laws designed to erect … available to both public and private enforcers of the U.S. antitrust laws to challenge state-imposed restraints on competition …

enforcement of existing laws.This testimony provides insights on three important questions concerning the state of competition in …

policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes. …

This paper examines how market competition affects the intensity and breadth of innovation. I assembled a unique … between price competition and innovation. When collusion suppressed price competition, colluding firms increased patent … technology classes increased by 30%. When competition was restored by collusion breakdown, the increased and broadened innovation …

on Competition and Deregulation, Third Roundtable On Anticompetitive Regulations. The Global Antitrust Institute …'s Competition Advocacy Program applauds the DOJ for acknowledging the limitations of price regulation and the unintended … regulate competition: (1) the social costs of price regulation in a market economy, (2) the problematic history of price …

Competition authorities have several tools at their disposal in crafting a competition policy. Most prominent are … litigation and merger review. A less-recognized but often effective tool, however, is "competition advocacy." Broadly …, competition advocacy is using persuasion, rather than coercion, to convince government actors to pursue policies that further …

economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so … concerning? (ii) Would vertical or horizontal integration be more preferable for overall welfare and competition in this industry … concentrated U.S. market for audiovisual content the process of further vertical integration creates concerns from a competition …