Antitrust compliance scholarship, particularly with a focus on collusion, has been an area of study for some time. Changes in technology and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning create new possibilities both for anti-competitive behavior and to aid in detection of such...

I reconcile a disagreement in the literature regarding the impact of downstream price competition on anti-competitive exclusive dealing, and then extend the exclusive dealing literature to accommodate adverse selection. Adverse selection expands the scope of inefficient exclusion, and may also...

We present a theory of anticompetitive exclusive dealing. In it, exclusive deals do not serve to disadvantage rivals or exclude them from the market. In equilibrium, it is often the case that multiple suppliers each form their own exclusive networks, with some downstream firms remaining...