Antitrust Chronicle® – Unilateral Effects

Dear Readers,

This Chronicle examines an area of merger analysis that continues to evolve rapidly: the assessment of unilateral effects and the economic frameworks used to evaluate them. As enforcement agencies and courts grapple with increasingly complex markets — particularly those shaped by digital platforms, network effects, and ecosystem dynamics — the analytical tools used to assess mergers are under renewed scrutiny. The contributions in this issue explore two important strands