Antitrust Chronicle®

Dear Readers,   For much of its modern history, antitrust has presented itself as a technocratic exercise: a discipline of market definition, competitive effects, and carefully calibrated interventions designed to...

This article examines how geopolitical pressures increasingly influence the operation of competition policy itself. Through merger control and digital regulation, the authors show how governments and firms alike can deploy...

This article explores the evolving political determinants of U.S. antitrust enforcement and asks whether changing institutional structures are reshaping how discretionary power is exercised. This contribution moves beyond familiar debates...

For decades, U.S. antitrust was a quiet technocratic discipline, often considered a siloed and apolitical exercise in protecting consumer welfare. The rise of artificial intelligence and the return of Great...

In recent years, there have been numerous calls to expand antitrust law beyond the sphere of economics and use it to address the democratic harms that flow from economic concentration...

This article discusses Mario Draghi’s suggestion to battle increasingly uncompetitive markets in the EU by way of a so-called New Competition Tool (NCT). The NCT is a flexible tool that...

Over about two decades, China’s industrial and trade policies have transformed global markets in critical materials and technologies. These policies give rise to a complex mix of competitive effects, including...

This article offers a provocative reading of the Digital Markets Act as something more than a competition instrument. The authors suggest that beneath debates over fairness, contestability, and compliance lies...

For more than a century, competition law has rested on a foundational assumption: that markets are essentially neutral spaces and that the principal threat to competitive order originates from private...

Dear Readers,   Healthcare remains one of the most complex and consequential frontiers for competition policy. It is a sector defined by persistent consolidation, heavy regulation, and — now more...

This article examines the Federal Trade Commission’s newly established Healthcare Task Force and argue that its success will hinge on confronting the growing centrality of health data in competition analysis....

U.S. antitrust enforcement has been underdoing several significant changes over the past ten years, from changes in administration, to new merger guidelines, to new (and then old) Hart-Scott-Rodino Act rules. ...