antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …

preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing …

Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate …

antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The decree forced Bell …

. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its …

many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market … use a novel database that identifies over 20,000 product/geographic antitrust markets affected by over 2,000 mergers …

cross-industry differences in this dimension. Theory suggests several potential factors that might explain this dispersion … lower variability of the number of firms; and (2) these relationships are non-linear as suggested by theory with initial … appear to be mixed. We explore the implications of our findings for antitrust analysis. …

that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … higher world import prices and lower quantities during cartel periods, and to induce the establishment of a cartel. The …