Antitrust Chronicle® – Hub-&-Spoke Conspiracies
Dear Readers, Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law. They sit somewhere between the relative comfort of bilateral vertical agreements and the more demanding...
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Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law.

January 2026 - 1
Recidivism has an intuitive moral pull in antitrust: if competition law is meant to deter, repeat offending feels like the clearest evidence that deterrence has failed. Yet, as this edition’s contributions show, recidivism is also a concept riddled with definitional, institutional, and jurisdictional complexity.
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ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AT A TIME OF UPHEAVAL: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents
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John Kwoka, Jr.
Tommaso M. Valletti
Lawrence J. White, eds
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US Antitrust Agency Publishes Revised HSR Notification Thresholds and Filing Fees For 2026
COMESA’s New Competition & Consumer Protection Regulations: Game-Changer for Regional Enforcement?
What the Disparagement Cases Tell Us About Abuses by Object (and the Forthcoming Guidelines)

