Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Transformation of the Health Care System -- 2. The Current Treatment: A Strong Dose of Competition -- 3. Antitrust Policy in Health Care Markets -- 4. Market Definition in Health Care Antitrust Cases Involving Consolidation --...

Theories of vertical restraints have shown that vertical practices have the potential to harm competition. Although (or because) they are based on more realistic market structures and account explicitly for strategic interactions among competitions, the predictions of these models are...

John Kwoka's Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies is a meta-analysis of “retrospective” academic studies of consummated mergers and other horizontal arrangements. Based on this meta-analysis, Kwoka strongly criticizes federal enforcement policies, claiming that the agencies permit far too...

John Kwoka's recently published Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies (2015) has received considerable attention from both antitrust practitioners and academics. The book features a meta-analysis of retrospective studies of consummated mergers, joint ventures, and other horizontal arrangements....

John Kwoka’s Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies is a meta-analysis of “retrospective” academic studies of consummated mergers and other horizontal arrangements. Based on this meta-analysis, Kwoka strongly criticizes federal enforcement policies, claiming that the agencies permit far too...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Transformation of the Health Care System -- 2 The Current Treatment:A Strong Dose of Competition -- 3 Antitrust Policy in Health Care Markets -- 4 Market Definition in Health Care Antitrust Cases Involving Consolidation -- 5 Entry Barriers in Health...