Competition policy is entering a new age. Interest in competition laws has increased world-wide, and the United States … no longer holds a monopoly on antitrust policy. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question for competition … competition policy. The Article then discusses to what extent the behavioral economics literature can inform antitrust policies …

The antitrust landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade. Within the last two years alone, the United States … the most significant characteristics of the “new” antitrust approach have been a more intense focus on innovative … companies in high-tech industries and a weakening of longstanding concerns that erroneous antitrust interventions will hinder …

This comment was filed with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on December 31, 2009, as "Comments Regarding … Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy" in response to the DOJ/USDA request for public comments … for the agencies' joint workshops on antitrust issues in the agricultural sector. Regarding firm size and integration, it …

, it requires understanding that sound antitrust analysis turns on likely effects on consumer welfare, not on debatable … spins of arid formalisms. Second, it requires measuring those effects compared to the but-for baseline of what the world … consumer welfare from what it would be without a settlement? It is not an antitrust violation to enter into an agreement that …

The EC antitrust prohibitions are regularly invoked in private litigation as a shield. Private parties also play an … important role in public antitrust enforcement through complaints to the competition authorities. However, in marked contrast … situation is a desirable one. Indeed, from the perspective of ensuring that the antitrust prohibitions are not violated, public …

are discussed, and U.S. Antitrust law and Chinese Antitrust law are compared to some extent. Knowing and understanding the … case between Dexian and Sony will be useful to those who are interested in understanding the current Chinese Antitrust law … and some of the differences between U.S. Antitrust law and Chinese Antitrust law, and will be meaningful to Antitrust …

Competition authorities need to obtain intelligence and evidence of antitrust violations so as to be able to punish the … antitrust violators and create deterrence. The best information will usually be in the hands of the antitrust violators … antitrust violators, including an economic interpretation of the privilege against self-incrimination. Comparing the strengths …

The Antitrust Modernization Commission's (AMC's) recommendations relating to the IP/antitrust interface reflect what … has become the consensus view among mainstream commentators that IP and antitrust are, for the most part, complementary … along the antitrust/IP interface. These areas of potential conflict can be grouped into three broad categories. "Category 1 …

will achieve neither of these goals and hope that the DOJ's Antitrust Division of the next administration rejoins the FTC …