There is a widening consensus among jurisdictions with competition laws that" the basic
objective of competition policy is to protect competition as the most appropriate means of …

Standard economic analysis of judicial behavior, at least with respect to federal judges, has
to some extent foundered on the apparent success of the Constitution's framers in designing …

Exclusionary conduct'is commonly relegated to the periphery in contemporary antitrust
discourse, while price fixing, market division, and other forms of collusion are placed at the …

After one hundred years one might expect a rule of law to be settled. In the case of the" rule
of reason," first endorsed by the Supreme Court in its 1911 decision dissolving the Standard …

The principal federal antitrust laws, the Sherman Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914,
are broadly worded, and they give the federal courts and antitrust enforcement agencies …

The new 4th edition of EU Merger Regulation: Substantive Issues provides you with a
detailed guide to the analysis of mergers by the European Commission. Fully revised for …

Candidates for President once debated antitrust policy. Disputes about regulating trusts took
center stage in the four-way 1912 election campaign among President William Howard Taft …

Merger law exhibits an unexplained and unexamined differentiation between probabilistic
costs and benefits.'In the two leading merger systems-those of the United States and the …

For most of the twentieth century, the federal courts have assumed that they must choose
between two extreme methods of analyzing conduct under Section 1 of the Sherman Act:'a …

Since the publication of the first edition of Mergers and Acquisitions, the federal agencies
and state attorneys general have continued an active merger agenda and have refined …