Two premises underlie state health care antitrust law reform measures. The first presumes that the federal antitrust laws prevent efficiency-enhancing collaborations and that, by displacing the federal regime, states can encourage health care firms to generate cost savings that they in turn will...

Microeconomic theory has long guided competition law. Using price- and game-theoretic models, antitrust has settled on rules that have endured because they are more coherent, easier to understand, and simpler to apply than any other methodology. In application, those rules predict the market...

The basic operational premise of the U.S. antitrust system posits that one can reliably demarcate business conduct into two distinct classes, specifically unilateral and concerted behavior. Professional sports leagues and other complex ventures confound this premise, engaging in arrangements...

The role that the state place, both formally and informally, within the jurisdiction is dictated by factors that are political, cultural, and historical, and may relate to the stage of a nation’s economic development. In a market friendly environment with a strong commitment to competition law...

Competition and the State analyzes the role of the state across a number of dimensions as it relates to competition law and policy across a number of dimensions. This book re-conceptualizes the interaction between competition law and government activities in light of the profound transformation...

Competition laws are economic statutes aimed at promoting and protecting competition in markets. While there is general agreement about the types of conduct deemed to be detrimental to competition, the form and content of competition laws vary. The political economies of individual...

This article is about the reach of antitrust laws to proscribe or override anticompetitive acts and measures of the states. While it was once the case that antitrust (or competition) laws were reserved for private restraints, a more modern view of the state and the market recognizes the integral...