The United States experienced merger waves of unprecedented proportions during the 1980s and 1990s. After mapping the resulting relocation of corporate headquarters among metropolitan areas, this article investigates how relocations affected the financial status of leading American symphony...

Resale price maintenance (RPM) is a controversial pricing practice for managing retail distribution channels. In Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007), the Supreme Court abolished a nearly century-old per se rule against RPM established in Dr. Miles Medicine Co. v. John D....

The following charts illustrate the global size and economic impacts of the modern international cartel movement and the enforcement responses of the world’s antitrust authorities and national courts. The sample encompasses 640 private hard-core cartels that were subject to government or...

The following charts illustrate the global size and economic impacts of the modern international cartel movement and the enforcement responses of the world’s antitrust authorities and national courts. The sample encompasses 640 private hard-core cartels that were subject to government or...

Prepared as background for the AAI’s June 18-19 conferences on efficiency, this paper provides an overview of issues relating to the role of efficiency in antitrust, considering the various types of efficiency (allocative, productive, and dynamic) and the conflict of priorities that may exist...

Resale price maintenance (RPM) is a channel pricing strategy that establishes the price below which a product cannot be resold. The Supreme Court’s decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007) overruled a nearly 100-year old rule against RPM agreements. Together with...

The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to survey the relatively recent literature on entrepreneurship and antitrust. This bibliography is organized into three sections: (1) Defining Entrepreneurship; (2) Entrepreneurship in Various Disciplines; and (3) Entrepreneurship, Competition and...

The following charts illustrate the global size and economic impacts of the modern international cartel movement and the enforcement responses of the world's antitrust authorities and national courts. The sample encompasses 640 private hard-core cartels that were subject to government or private...

The following charts illustrate the global size and economic impacts of the modern international cartel movement and the enforcement responses of the world's antitrust authorities and national courts. The sample encompasses 640 private hard-core cartels that were subject to government or private...

On January 31, 2014, the DOJ added trophies to its list of achievements from the more than three-year long investigation into the auto parts cartels. A former president and a vice president of a Japan-based corporation agreed to plead guilty for their participation in a conspiracy to fix the...