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China’s New “Safe Harbor” Antitrust Rules Offer Less Safety Than Suggested

China’s new safe harbor rules for vertical dealing, including practices like resale price maintenance hitherto presumed generally anticompetitive, are less accommodating than they may seem, writes Yin Hu.

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The Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War Shows Antitrust Enforcement Still Works

Sean D. Reyes

How Competition Has Increased Fraud in Medicare’s DME Program

Renuka Diwan, Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan C. McDevitt and James W. Roberts

How Bans on Corporate Political Donations Influence Campaign Platforms

Julia Cagé, Caroline Le Pennec and Elisa Mougin

Smart Contracts Are Shifting Property Rights and Risk

Stefan Bechtold, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Edoardo D. Martino and Gideon Parchomovsky

The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same

Alexander Furnas, Tim LaPira and Clare Brock

Meta’s Winning Market Definition in Its Monopoly Case Relied on a Flawed Empirical Assumption

Clement Mulock

Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind

Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg

Sharing a Leader With Your Rival Firm Increases Odds of Collusion

Alejandro Herrera-Caicedo, Jessica Jeffers and Elena Prager

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Carmine Ornaghi and Lorenzo Cassi

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Happiness Among Americans Plummeted During Covid. It Has Not Recovered Since

The Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War Shows Antitrust Enforcement Still Works

How Competition Has Increased Fraud in Medicare’s DME Program

How Bans on Corporate Political Donations Influence Campaign Platforms

Smart Contracts Are Shifting Property Rights and Risk

The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same

Meta’s Winning Market Definition in Its Monopoly Case Relied on a Flawed Empirical Assumption

Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind

Sharing a Leader With Your Rival Firm Increases Odds of Collusion

Do Pharmaceutical Acquisitions Undermine Innovation by Disrupting Human Capital?

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