During the financial crisis, companies and lenders found themselves in distressed situations. Competition authorities across the globe had to deal with controversial issues such as the application of the ‘failing firm’ defence in merger transactions as well as assessment of emergency aid...

This chapter will examine the growth of Professor Eleanor Fox's global and cosmopolitan vision for the future of competition policy. Over her illustrious career, Professor Fox's scholarship traces an arc that began with the battle for the soul of U.S. antitrust law as the Chicago School's...

The Antitrust Marathon is a long-running series of roundtable discussions sponsored by the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies of Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Competition Law Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, focusing on enduring issues...

On Friday, April 11th, 2008, the second leg of the Antitrust Marathon took place. A number of antitrust practitioners and scholars from Europe and North America met at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London to discuss the comparative state of monopolization law. This meeting, co-sponsored by...

Both the Free Trade Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between Canada and Chile contain provisions relating to competition law enforcement cooperation. These agreements include terms covering inter alia the following cooperative concepts: comity, consultations, conflict...

This paper focuses on the assessment of mergers, and in particular on unilateral effects analysis where innovation plays an important role. The paper discusses the economic theories behind innovation, how we move from the traditional product-by-product market definition to pipeline competition...