illegal. The model assumes enforcement risk and firms that are imperfectly informed about antitrust law enforcement. It is …

Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials’ knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …

Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials' knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …

Estimating antitrust risk is fundamental to identifying, proposing, and pricing deals. A more informed understanding of … what to expect when meeting with agency staff and leadership will help antitrust lawyers and economists (or other … consultants) anticipate the critical questions and potential paths that should be addressed regarding antitrust merger risk. This …

This study examines whether antitrust risk affects firms’ disclosure of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Due to … regulatory exemptions, deals that fall below a size threshold escape formal antitrust scrutiny at the time of the merger. These … (i.e., capitalize the product market benefits into stock prices in a timely manner) and the potential antitrust scrutiny …

cross-industry differences in this dimension. Theory suggests several potential factors that might explain this dispersion … lower variability of the number of firms; and (2) these relationships are non-linear as suggested by theory with initial … appear to be mixed. We explore the implications of our findings for antitrust analysis. …

challenge to antitrust economists at least since Schumpeter’s suggestion that dynamic competition would result in “creative …

Since the introduction of a formal commitments procedure in EU antitrust policy (Article 9 of Council Regulation 1 …