This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …

model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of …

between competitive and collusive basing-point pricing. We define a measure for the likelihood of collusion that can be used … to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this … screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …

place. Both the antitrust laws and state and federal rate regulatory regimes require enforcers to act to maximize consumer …

algorithms to facilitate explicit and tacit collusion. This Article argues that the policy challenges pricing algorithms pose are … competitive markets and even in the absence of collusion. This consumer harm can be initiated by a single firm employing a … from consumers. Because this consumer harm arises even when firms do not collude, antitrust law can-not solve the problem …

An important issue in many antitrust lawsuits involving professional sports leagues and their member teams is the …

model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of … discrimination ; competition ; collusion …