If any court is linked to the “law and economics” movement, it is the Seventh Circuit, home of former Judge Richard Posner, the “Chicago School,” and analysis based on markets and economics. It thus comes as a surprise that in college-athletics cases, the court has replaced economic...

Recent expansive applications of the ‘object' prohibition under Article 101 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union have left the scope of ‘object' restrictions in a state of uncertainty and incoherence. This article undertakes an unprecedented theoretical study of the ‘object'...

The antitrust analysis of product hopping is nuanced. The conduct, which consists of a drug company's reformulation of its product and encouragement of doctors to switch prescriptions to the reformulated product, sits at the intersection of antitrust law, patent law, the Hatch-Waxman Act, and...

This paper shows that two related aspects of attention platforms are important for the sound economic analysis of public policy including antitrust: First, attention platforms generate valuable content. Even though people often don't pay for content, we know from revealed preference that content...

The Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) social network, this era's new communications service, plays an important role in the lives of 2+ billion people across the world. Though the market was highly competitive in the beginning, it has since consolidated in Facebook's favor. Today, using Facebook...

Collegiate esports is an emerging industry, an extension of professional esports that has caught the attention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA is currently exploring the possibility of taking a dominant regulatory role within collegiate esports. The leagues and...

This short comment offers five proposals that could encourage a more robust market for biosimilars, targeting REMS denials, non-REMS denials, citizen petitions, and disparagement, and discussing coordination with the FTC

Turkish Abstract: İşbu makalede ilk olarak, Avrupa Birliği Komisyonu, Avrupa Genel Mahkemesi ve Avrupa Birliği Adalet Divanı'nın, Intel Corporation kararındaki değerlendirmeleri özetlenmiş ve bu doğrultuda, ABAD'ın farklılaşan değerlendirmelerine vurgu yapılarak bunların AB ve...

The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines (Guidelines) advance the use of the Gross Upward Pricing Pressure Index (GUPPI) for analyzing unilateral effects of mergers in differentiated-products industries. However, the Guidelines do not quantify a GUPPI safe harbor threshold, whereas the Guidelines...

Antitrust and competition law have grown dramatically in importance and significance over the last fifty years. US antitrust law has been the principal source of inspiration for jurisdictions wishing to introduce regulation to control cartels and monopolization, and antitrust regulation has now...