April 27, 2009
Book Review: How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark
William Kolasky, Apr 30, 2009 A senior official in the Bush Antitrust Division has defended [recent] judicial decisions as signaling not less antitrust, but better antitrust. How the Chicago School...
April 27, 2009
Dominant Firms’ Duties to Deal with Pharmaceutical Parallel Traders Following...
Louise Macnab, Robert O’Donoghue, Apr 15, 2009 EU competition policy on dominant firms and pharmaceutical parallel trade wholesalers taking advantage of arbitrage possibilities to export drugs from a low-priced Member...
April 27, 2009
Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal...
William Kovacic, Apr 30, 2009 This article suggests how a jurisdiction might best go about evaluating the quality of its competition policy system. It urges that competition agencies and collateral...
April 27, 2009
Reflections on Bush Administration M&A Antitrust Enforcement and Beyond
Ilene Knable Gotts, James Rill, Apr 30, 2009 The election of Barack Obama as President and the culmination of the Bush Administration mark an appropriate time to reflect on the...
April 27, 2009
Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy...
Dennis Carlton, Apr 30, 2009 In this article, I explain the inadequacy of our current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of antitrust policy towards mergers. I then discuss the...
April 27, 2009
Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement
Orley Ashenfelter, Daniel Hosken, Matthew Weinberg, Apr 30, 2009 The challenge of effective merger enforcement is tremendous. U.S. antitrust agencies must, by statute, quickly forecast the competitive effects of mergers...
April 27, 2009
Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Interaction between Judges and...
Diane Wood, Apr 30, 2009 Competition law is not the only area in which it is essential that decision-makers understand economic evidence, but it is surely one of the most...
April 27, 2009
Merger Trials: Looking for the Third Dimension
Vaughn Walker, Apr 30, 2009 I do not argue here that concern about judicial competence regarding complex economic evidence is without substance. Nor do I contend that mergers are best...
April 27, 2009
Institutional Aspects of European Commission Guidance in the Area of...
Ben Smulders, Apr 30, 2009 From an institutional law perspective, the question arises how to qualify the more than thirty existing communications, notices and guidelines which the Commission has issued...