antitrust and competition
How Both the Chicago School and Ordoliberalism Softened on Big Businesses
In new research, Ryan Stones revisits the alleged disagreement between two influential schools of antitrust on how to handle big businesses. Instead of finding contrasting policy recommendations, he highlights a strikingly similar relaxation of attitudes toward enforcement in the Chicago School and Ordoliberalism in the post-war period.
How To Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act Under a Raising Rivals’ Cost Approach
Steven Salop explores the presumptions and evidence that could undergird Commissioner Melissa Holyoak’s preferred “Raising Rivals’ Cost” approach to the enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act.
Creating a Robust Economy Requires a Corporate-Governance Policy Response
William Lazonick writes that recent United States industrial policy initiatives miss the centrality of corporate resource allocation for creating a robust economy, characterized by...
Rethinking Merger Analysis
The following is an excerpt from Louis Kaplow’s new book,“Rethinking Merger Analysis,” now out at MIT Press.
Expert Economist Testimonies Are Challenged More Often in Antitrust Cases
In a new working paper, Edoardo Peruzzi shows that under the Daubert standard for admissibility of expert witness, economists face more frequent challenges in antitrust litigation than in other legal domains, like patent or labor law. Additionally, plaintiffs’ experts are more likely to face a Daubert challenge than defendants’ experts.
Did the Mouse Outfox the Fox? The Fubo Settlement, Disney, and the Death of the Venu Sports-Streaming Venture
Reviewing the literature pioneered by Richard Gilbert and David Newbery, Steven Salop finds that the recent settlement between sports-streaming services Fubo and the Venu...
The Trends and Cases That Will Define European Antitrust in 2025
Four antitrust and competition experts predict the trends and cases that will define European antitrust in 2025.
Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act in 2025
Marco...
The Trends and Cases That Will Define United States Antitrust in 2025
Three antitrust experts predict the trends and cases that will define United States antitrust in 2025.
AI competition
Robin Feldman, University of California Law San Francisco
2025...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Just Made It Harder for Trustbusters To Break Up the Live-Nation Ticketmaster Monopoly
Diana Moss writes that a new Massachusetts economic development bill with a provision for limiting the transferability of tickets to live events has succumbed...
What the US Learned and the EU Should Consider About National Champions
Bill Baer argues that the United States’ history with promoting national champions through industrial policy shows how protection and the diminution of competition often backfires on the favored companies and the state. He writes that industrial policy must complement competition policy.
