The recent Baidu Inc. decision provides insight into how Chinese courts might apply antitrust principles and assess evidence in private antitrust litigation in the future. As in the U.S., the Baidu court appears to have been interested in rigorous economic analysis of the antitrust allegations

The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission receive notification regarding thousands of mergers per year, and must identify, from the entire set of mergers, those that require further investigation. Merger screens are critical to efficient and effective merger enforcement policy,...

A review of the writings of Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro suggest directions they may take antitrust enforcement as chief economists at the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, respectively

On October 1, 2009, the State of Maryland enacted a statute that prohibits the use of minimum resale price maintenance (RPM). This was in response to the Supreme Court’s 2007 Leegin decision that held that RPM should be evaluated under the rule of reason rather than be considered per se...

Predatory pricing occurs where a firm deliberately sets prices below cost to eliminate, discipline or deter entry by a competitor, with the goal to subsequently recoup its losses by charging supra-competitive prices. China's Anti-Monopoly Law, Anti-Unfair Competition Law and Price Law contain...

In 2004, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in LePage's, Inc. v. 3M. The decision ended a hotly contested litigation, but it fueled the controversy and debate over the competitive effects of bundled rebates and discounts. The Supreme Court's decision followed the recommendations of the US...