EU authorities increasingly take antitrust and data protection enforcement action against US internet companies. While … many believe in digital protectionism, this paper looks at the foundations of data protection and antitrust policies across … competition policy to advance personal freedom, US antitrust policy focuses on economic efficiency. These singular EU traits …

The increased importance of antitrust as a campaign issue and a political conversation raises long-standing troubling … issues of whether antitrust enforcement (or non-enforcement) can, and is, being used for partisan political purposes. First … messages and that antitrust was one way to deal with such alleged abuses. Third, there have been press reports that the head of …

The digital economy presents challenges for antitrust law, but changes in substantive antitrust law are not needed to … cope with them. The biggest problem in antitrust today is that the courts impose excessive burdens on plaintiffs, but no …, the meaning of any legislative change to substantive antitrust law could take generations to resolve. The Foreign Trade …

Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup. In contrast, they are neglected by the current Assistant Attorney General of the … Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim.This Essay does four things. First, it explains why the Shapiro … economics. Second, it raises questions related to standards organizations' rules and antitrust law that the authors could more …

the role of market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention … framework. Antitrust tools should focus on value creation and its distribution before focusing on competition. The scope of …

how Big Tech has come under scrutiny, the antitrust implications of the industry's behavior, and the potential remedy of …

Criminal cartel cases in the U.S. are at modern lows, spurring questions as to whether the Antitrust Criminal Penalty … Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 (ACPERA) and the Antitrust Division's criminal enforcement program continue to be effective and … program have succeeded in deterring cartel formation – at least among U.S. companies. Our analysis of the Antitrust Case …

Antitrust regulation harms both consumers, competition, and innovation and therefore should be repealed. From a …, the executive branch should decline to prosecute weak or spurious antitrust cases, and courts should reverse bad … results from government antitrust regulation. It would also reduce opportunities for rent-seeking.The issue has taken on …

Since the publication of Robert Bork's The Antitrust Paradox, lawyers, judges, and many economists have defended … “Consumer welfare” (CW) as a standard for decisions about antitrust goals and enforcement priorities. This paper argues that the … CW is actually an empty concept and is an inappropriate goal for antitrust. Welfare economists concede that there is no …