antitrust and competition
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.
How Industrial Policy Gave Us the Sherman Act
Elizabeth Popp Berman writes that the history of the antimonopoly movement and industrial policy in the United States shows that antitrust and industrial policy, currently considered by many to be in conflict, can complement each other in pursuit of shared goals.
Unconditional Revenue-Sharing By Google Would Still Be Anticompetitive Monopolization
Steven C. Salop argues that as part of any remedy outcome from the Google Search case, Google cannot be permitted to enter agreements with...
