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

, the intensity of local competition and the standard of living. Perception data from the World Economic Forum is used to … effectiveness explain a substantial part of the perception of the effectiveness of antitrust policy. During the first years of (new … further improvement of their application performance after a certain time. The effectiveness of antitrust policy has a …

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 …

the surface. We nonetheless conclude that Bill Kovacic has passed with flying colors the work-study program of Antitrust …

Do the antitrust law enforcement activities of the US Department of Justice act as exogenous "technology shocks", an … essential element of real business cycle theory that hitherto has eluded direct empirical corroboration, or as "markup shocks … of federal antitrust intervention: the ratio of the Antitrust Division's budgetary expenditures to GDP as well as the …

In most jurisdictions, antitrust fines are based on affected commerce rather than on collusive profits, and in some …

indicators of market performance, in order to understand whether the presence of an antitrust authority has a significant impact …