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Antitrust and Competition

Merger Guidelines: Taking on a Monopoly Crisis

Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller lays out the case for the new draft Merger Guidelines, arguing that they incorporate new lessons regarding technology and business practices, while also learning from past mistakes.
Antitrust and Competition

Dennis Carlton: The Draft Merger Guidelines Demote Economics To Justify Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement

Dennis Carlton
Dennis Carlton provides his round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Steven Salop: Burdens of Proof and Presumptions in the Merger Guidelines

Steven Salop
Steven Salop provides his round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Eric Posner: The Role of Consumer Welfare in Merger Enforcement

Eric A. Posner
Eric Posner provides his round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity

Simcha Barkai
Simcha Barkai describes the results of new research on the impact of antitrust on U.S. economic activity with co-authors Tania Babina, Jessica Jeffers, Ezra Karger, and Ekaterina Volkova. Enforcement, they find, increases the level of economic activity.
Antitrust and Competition

Eleanor Fox: Tackling the Critics of the Draft Merger Guidelines

Eleanor Fox
Eleanor Fox provides her round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Carl Shapiro: How Would These Draft Guidelines Work in Practice?

Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro provides his round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Herbert Hovenkamp: Distinguishing Harms from Benefits in the 2023 Merger Guidelines

Herbert Hovenkamp
Herb Hovenkamp provides his round-two comments on the draft Merger Guidelines.
Antitrust and Competition

Bilal Sayyed: The Draft Merger Guidelines Abandon the Persuasiveness of their Predecessors

Bilal Sayyed
Bilal Sayyed provides his round-one comments on the draft Merger Guidelines. To read more from the ProMarket Merger Guidelines Symposium, please see here. For revised Merger Guidelines to retain...
Antitrust and Competition

Family Ties and the Boundaries of the Firm in Antitrust Enforcement

Mariana Pargendler
In new research, Mariana Pargendler, Maria Luiza Mesquita, and Lucas Víspico study how antitrust authorities in the Global South have used family ties to define business enterprises and analyze mergers and acquisitions for possibly anticompetitive behavior.
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