Managed care has been hypothesized to increase patient travel for health care services by steering patients to more distant providers. This raises access concerns. However, if the result is to expand the geographic extent of provider markets, this may ease antitrust concerns about mergers. This...

<Para ID="Par1">Physician services comprise a substantial share of total health care spending, and the price of health care services has been cited as a key contributor to the disproportionately high rate of health care spending in the US. However, despite a large literature analyzing market power in the...</para>

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to discuss the SEC's increased willingness to pursue insider trading enforcement actions related to transactions that take place largely outside the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes several recent insider trading enforcement actions...