Baker on the Dueling Bush Administration Antitrust Agencies
Jonathan Baker (American) has a column at The New Republic focusing on a different aspect of the FTC vs. DOJ scuffles over antitrust policy. Baker . . .
Baker on the Dueling Bush Administration Antitrust Agencies
Inter-Agency Scuffling Over Section 2: What Role for Economists and Economics at the FTC and DOJ?
Much has already been written about the strained relationship between the FTC and DOJ in antitrust matters. There is no more entertaining description of these . . .
Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?
As regular readers of this blog will know, I was pretty stoked when the Supreme Court finally overruled its infamous Dr. Miles decision. The Leegin . . .
A High Profile Test Case for the Chinese Antimonopoly Law
Coca-Cola and China’s Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd $2.4 billion deal looks like it is set to be the first major merger test for the China’s . . .
Merging to Second Best
Luke Froeb, Mikhael Shor and Steven Tschantz have just posted an interesting looking model of mergers in auction settings where the incumbent firm has an . . .
Antitrust Fallacies of Fact and Theory
Steve Hurwitz as a characteristically thoughtful and provocative post over at Austrian Economists on identifying the most dangerous fallacies of fact and theory in economics . . .
Life After Dr. Miles
An article in today’s WSJ, Price-Fixing Makes Comeback After Supreme Court Ruling, reports that minimum resale price maintenance (i.e., the setting of minimum retail prices . . .
Why Antitrust?
As the start of the new academic year inches closer, and students are deciding what courses to take, I thought I’d give a little plug . . .
Optimal Regulatory Design, Fragmentation, and Abolition
In response to my post about the optimal institutional design for merger enforcement and the problems associated with dual federal enforcement, a reader points me . . .