be part of our analysis of antitrust. The other is the notion that market definition is incoherent …

Antitrust emerged in the 1950s and became dominant in the US. We show the extent to which economic objectives and theoretical … views shaped antitrust laws in their inception. After establishing the minor influence of economics in the promulgation of U ….S. competition laws, we then highlight U.S. economists' very cautious views about antitrust until the Second New Deal. We analyze the …

fall within a category of unilateral conduct that is virtually impossible to challenge under existing antitrust law. To … evaluating platform discrimination in a practicable way that is consistent with core antitrust principles. Following other recent … proposal, the bulk of the paper focuses on applying it to real-world cases, such as analyzing foreclosure; defining markets …

The Federal Trade Commission recently voted unanimously to close the portion of its antitrust investigation into Google … content in search results did not violate U.S. antitrust laws. This paper suggests that the FTC's decision was correct … results, being good for a search engine, must be anticompetitive. Antitrust law is consumer-centric, and practices that …

situation of public and private misuse of antitrust may not happen often. As the Article will explore, it is not only a … theoretical argument. This Article will provide examples of where this may have occurred both in antitrust's formative years and …

This paper discusses the theory and practice of leniency in antitrust enforcement, i.e. the granting of immunity from … penalties or the reduction of penalties for antitrust violations in exchange for cooperation with the antitrust enforcement … positive effects and the possible negative effects of leniency on optimal antitrust enforcement, and the extent to which these …

antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission, for example, in recent hearings inquired as to whether antitrust immunity is … necessary for newspapers’ collaboration and under what circumstances, if any, antitrust immunity for certain joint conduct could … be justified. Our essay explores why relaxing the federal antitrust laws for traditional media will not help consumers or …

In the current system of EC antitrust enforcement, the European Commission combines the investigative and prosecutorial …

We examine the consumer-welfare implications of Google’s project to scan a large proportion of the world’s books into … Google’s claimed ability to exercise market power. The Antitrust Division has confirmed that it is investigating the … a valuable new service for expanding access to orphan books. We therefore conclude that neither antitrust intervention …