This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis …

Over the past three decades, antitrust laws have proliferated across the globe. International institutions and … governments have promoted antitrust policy as an important regulatory tool to enhance economic performance. At the same time, we … benefits of greater efficiency, economic prosperity and innovation? In other words, is the adoption of these antitrust laws …

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

This paper offers an opportunity to reflect on Frank Easterbrook’s seminal work on the Limits of Antitrust and to … discuss its particular relevance to the problem of antitrust enforcement in the face of innovation. The error-cost framework … in antitrust originates with Easterbrook’s analysis, itself built on twin premises: first, that false positives are more …

Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … market failure. We provide an economic analysis of these allegations based upon economic theory as well as publicly available … Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …

How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … empirically studying the US antitrust case against Xerox, the monopolist in the market for plain-paper copiers. In 1975, Xerox was …