This book focuses on the antitrust process and how that process affects the efficiency of antitrust law enforcement. The contributors share a wide range of experiences in the antitrust process, including academia, the legal environment, and both private and public sectors. The book deals first...

The Hart Scott Rodino program, coupled with the modern Merger Guidelines has structured merger enforcement for the last twenty years. This paper reviews all of the filings on which the Commission issued a second request. While horizontal mergers predominate, vertical, potential competition and...

The 2010 revision of the Merger Guidelines highlighted the importance of both economic modeling of the post-merger competitive process and effects evidence, defined as information able to predict the transaction’s likely competitive effect. With sufficient data, it is possible to see how...