Monday-morning assessments of antitrust merger trial outcomes are common. Critics of a court decision blocking a merger … narrative has emerged that judicial application of the antitrust laws — overly influenced by the Chicago School — has become … increasingly hostile toward antitrust authorities’ (Agencies’) challenges of mergers over time. A corollary of this narrative is …

We observe that many wholesale switches in automated teller machine (ATM) networks are jointly owned by their members … under the latter and that retail prices are higher. This calls into question the leniency of antitrust policy toward jointly …

The period spanning 1992 through 2000 was a time of significant federal and state antitrust activity. A major … contribution to this activity was the proliferation of high-profile antitrust cases in which a single nexus of facts and conduct … "cluster bomb effect." This development has dramatically increased potential antitrust liability for defendants, and it raises …