We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of … economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states targeted by DOJ antitrust lawsuits to outcomes of the same industry in … other states that were not targeted. We document that DOJ antitrust enforcement actions permanently increase employment by 5 …

Antitrust enforcement in the United States has declined since the 1960s. Building on several new datasets, we argue … antitrust law in confirmation hearings. We find little evidence that academic ideas played an important role in the decline of … antitrust enforcement except where they coincided with the interests of big business, which appears to have exercised influence …

In this article, I explain the inadequacy of our current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of antitrust … the effectiveness of antitrust policy. There are two types of data one requires in order to perform such an analysis. One … with the first type that a reliable analysis of antitrust policy can be carried out. There is a need both to collect the …

This paper presents a non-technical discussion of economic issues that arise due to links between competition (or anti-trust …) policy and international trade. While recent advances in international trade theory have borrowed heavily from the industrial … organization literature, this work has a schizophrenic quality to it. One of the insights that motivated the new trade theory was …

,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from promoting entry of domestic firms in the manufacturing sector. In a … trade predicted by the theory are present in data and are quantitatively important …

will be incorporated into the next generation of the Penn World Table …