Advocates of vigorous antitrust enforcement should not fear the rise of textualism. The Sherman Act, Clayton Act and … antitrust enforcement. Consider the original words in Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and also some specific words that were not … a tougher approach to merger enforcement than these alternatives. The plain words of Section 7, moreover, do not contain …

cartel overcharges and their antitrust policy implications. In this comment, we explain why we believe Langenfeld errs in his …% presumption; and the implications of the average cartel overcharges results for optimal deterrence and antitrust policy …

mergers, briefly addressing calls for the U.S. antitrust agencies to update their 1984 Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines …The generally well-accepted belief motivating modern antitrust analysis of vertical mergers — i.e., acquisitions that … meta-studies of the empirical evidence by leading industrial organization economists from academia and the U.S. antitrust …

vertical mergers. Using public data from the Comcast-Time Warner-Adelphia Merger Order of the Federal Communications Commission …