Antitrust and competition law is subject to increasing polarization, especially regarding Internet giants. Some …, a broad consensus on antitrust and competition policy in the area of collusion (Section 1 of the Sherman Act in the …-competitive collusion for consumers. In fact, cartels are regularly described as being “the supreme evil of antitrust,” a quasi …

Any discussion of private antitrust enforcement usually focuses on substantive law and proceedings applicable to … private antitrust cases. Those elements are important, however, the efficacy of both public and private enforcement relies … affecting the institutions which make decisions in private antitrust enforcement cases, namely the relevant courts. The …

antitrust duty to supply. In those circumstances, the EC approach in the Deutsche Telekom case helps to identify a standard. In …

of antitrust liability. This article presents an analysis of relevant markets and discusses relevant economic arguments …

The generally well-accepted belief motivating modern antitrust analysis of vertical mergers — i.e., acquisitions that … meta-studies of the empirical evidence by leading industrial organization economists from academia and the U.S. antitrust … agencies. Consistent with this evidence, the U.S. antitrust agencies typically have rarely challenged vertical mergers. When …

In mainstream antitrust law the nature of economic efficiency has not been investigated in great depth. Such an … investigation has important implications for antitrust law and economics. Among these are the following: (1) Behavioral economics … measures generally do not. (2) Thus an efficiency-based approach to antitrust should weigh consumer losses much more heavily …

to use the signals rather than words in order to conceal a surreptitious conspiracy. Still more important for antitrust …

addresses the question of whether, and under what conditions, the new EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions, along with the …

-sellers”) for antitrust law. This change is a critical challenge for antitrust law – both in how it is currently applied and in … facilitating practices, generally escape antitrust enforcement, even when their actions yield supracompetitive pricing that harms … blackletter antitrust law in dealing with price coordination through communication or facilitating practices; current doctrine …

As a general proposition, antitrust law is hostile to price discrimination. This hostility appears to derive from a … price discrimination by a monopolist. This article focuses on the antitrust implications of price discrimination based on …. In an important class of spatial models and many real world markets, the consumers to whom one firm would like to raise …