Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Market Power Paroxysm and the Antitrust Paradigm -- 1. Market Power in an Era of Antitrust -- 2. The Faltering Political Consensus Supporting Antitrust -- 3. Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust -- 4....

After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control of local service provisions in some sectors and countries and, instead, started providing those services themselves (reverse privatization). Using a unique panel data set on the mode of service provision...

Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression and the guidance of firms across the full spectrum of anti-competitive practices and market conduct. The role of guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly...

This volume contains ten papers, by many prominent authors, examining antitrust issues of current interest. The first paper summarizes the other papers and presents original research on the meaning of consumer welfare and the sources of buyer power. The next five articles evaluate older...