The case between Dexian and Sony is once called “the first Antimonopoly case” in China, since the case happened right before China Antimonopoly Law came into effect and brought certain important legal questions in dispute when the case was going on. Some of those questions now can be solved,...

In the last several decades, scores of new competition laws have been adopted and National Competition Authorities ("NCAs") established around the world. No matter what the arrangement for initial review of the NCA decision or review of a trial court in a private action, there is always an upper...

Dan Crane’s The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (2011), the subject of this review, threatened completely to change my understanding of antitrust law and policy. Crane’s 12-chapter discussion of antitrust enforcement, with primary emphasis on the US, but turning in the last...

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as much as 18%

Periods of profound innovation and technological change invariably result in short run winners and losers. The rise of big box retailers like Wal-Mart, as well as the existence of large supermarket chains, has led competition authorities to focus anew on the issue of buyer power. Antitrust...

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as much as 18%

Web-based businesses have become potential targets of antitrust concerns across the world with the proliferation of information, the growth of internet-related businesses and over two billion users of the internet worldwide as of the end of 2011. As a result of the use of this exponentially...

The Anti-Monopoly (Anti-Competition Law of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a recent development of the state following the opening up and reform of the 1980s. The Anti-Monopoly Law of PRC learned many experiences from the western world, such as the United States and the European Union...

Antitrust immunity for employees and unions seems to be a corny topic in the U.S. Although the Sherman Act in 1890 was once a tool to suppress labor organizations, exemptions were gradually granted in the following decades by several acts (e.g., the Clayton Act in 1914, and the Norris-LaGuardia...