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The Newest Wave of Antitrust “Crimes”:  Revival of Criminal Monopolization
Cartels 2022 — Halfway There Update: Policy Shifts, Labor and Trial Losses, and DOJ Not Backing Down … in Fact, Tripling Down
The Monaco Memo: What Could It Mean for Criminal Antitrust Enforcement?
Uncertainty in U.S. Price-Gouging Law Compliance and Defense
Top Takeaways from ICN Guidance on Enhancing Cross-Border Leniency Cooperation
Convergence in the Time of Cholera: What Lies Ahead for the International Antitrust Agenda
Africa: Years later, worlds second-largest seed firm finalizes buyout
The Adoption of Screening Tools by Competition Authorities
The Sherman Act’s Criminal Extraterritorial Reach: Unresolved Questions Raised By United States v. AU Optronics Corp
Fear of the Chinese or Business as Usual at the European Commission? EU Merger Regulation and the Assessment of Transactions Involving Chinese State-owned Enterprises
Antitrust Class Actions After Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
Implausible Wrongs and Dissimilarities: The Supreme Court Continues Its Anti-Litigation Trend, This Time With a Class Action Focus in Wal-Mart v. Dukes
Recent EU Antitrust Investigations into Financial Services” What Is the Scope for Antitrust Intervention?
The European Commission’s CDS Investigations: How to Balance Stability and Competition in the Financial Sector?
Financial Services And Competition Law In The United Kingdom: The Quest For Pro-Competitive Objectives And Suitable Tools
A Clear Vision for the ICN’s Second Decade
In the EU the Court of Justice Rules (Again) on Margin Squeeze
The Challenge of Competitive Neutrality in Public Procurement and Competition Policy: The U.K. Health Sector as Case Study
The Rejection of the Amended Google Book Settlement Agreement: A Librarian’s Perspective
The Google Book Settlement & the Uncertain Future of Copyright
Criterios tecnicos para la imposicion de multas en materia de competencia econo³mica
Proyecto de gua para notificar concentraciones
Applications Want to be Free: Privacy Against Information
Journalism, Competition, and the Digital Transition
Are “Closed Systems” an Antitrust Problem?
Emergence of Global Search Engines: Trends in History and Competition
Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut: Why China’s Anti-Monopoly Law was Inapproriate for Renren v. Baidu
Antitrust Markets and ACOs
Competitor Collaborations in Health Care: Understanding the Proposed ACO Antitrust Review Process
Collective Redress Proposals for Europe: Seeking a Solution to a Non-Existent Problem?
Class Representation: Opt-in, Opt-out, or Representative Action?
Is the European Commission’s Consultation on Collective Redress Trying to Fix an Antitrust Litigation Landscape That is Not Broken?
EU Proposals on Collective Redress – Lost in Consultation?
Competition Law: A Merger Perspective
The New Indian Merger Control Regulations: How Does the Balance Tilt?
India’s New Merger Control Regime: An Economist’s Perspective
The Pro-competitive Value of Closed Platforms & Walled Gardens: Some Thoughts In Response to Tim Wu
Liberalization of Closed Professions: Opening Pandora’s Box
Margin of Error: The Flawed Paradigm in the New Merger Guidelines
Upward Price Pressure, Merger Simulation, and Merger Simulation Light
The Use of Empirical Techniques in European Commission Merger Cases
Adding Antitrust to NDRC’s Arsenal
Unraveling the Jurisdictional Riddle of China’s Antitrust Regime
NDRC’s Antitrust Enforcement Decisions
The linkLine Decision: Section 2 Gets Squeezed Further
The new EU Competition Rules for Co-operation Between Competitors of December 2010
The Revised EU Competition Rules for Production and R&D Agreements Create a More Coherent Framework of Assessment and Provide Better Guidance to Companies
Escaping Effects Analysis: The Commission’s New Approach to Restrictions by Object
Some Observations on the Treatment of Standardization Agreements in the EC Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements
Competition Policy in Russia: Historical Sources, the Current State, and Evolutionary Perspectives
Vertical Agreements: New Competition Rules for the Next Decade
Behavioral Economics as Applied to Firms: A Primer
Upward Pricing Pressure and Critical Loss Analysis: Response
Best Practices in Article 101 and 102 Proceedings: Some Suggestions for Improved Transparency
How Many Markets are Two-Sided?
Competition Commission of India’s Trysts with Law and Policy: Enforcement One Year On
The End of Per Se Illegal Tying
EU Competition Policy in 2025: A Vision of an European Internationalist Future?
European Antitrust in 2025: A Strangely Familiar Picture
EU Antitrust Enforcement in 2025: Why Wait? Full Appellate Jurisdiction, Now
Supreme Court Verdict in CCI v SAIL: Setting the Ground Rules for Commission and the Appellate Tribunal
China Antitrust Law: A Round-up of Recent Developments
Litigation under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law
You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry: China’s Emerging Approach to Abuse of Dominance
Theory of Oligopoly
China’s Approach to Compulsory Licensing of Intellectual Property Under Its Anti-Monopoly Law
Antitrust Oversight: More an Art than a Craft
New Horizontal Merger Guidelines Indicate Greater Scrutiny of High Tech and Pharmaceutical Transactions
WARNING: Improper Use of the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines Can Result in Overly Narrow Markets, Mistaken Inferences of Market Power, and Wrong-Headed Analyses
The Framework of the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines
A Tale of Two Games: Membership Versus Usage in Platform Competition
The Interplay Between Competition and Clinical Integration: Why the Antitrust Agencies Care About Medical Care Delivery Styles
Clinical Integration: Linchpin of Real Reform
Federal Courts and Enforcers Diagnose Physician Practice Associations with Risk of Conspiracy Liability: Degree of Integration is Crucial to Challenges to Medical Network Price Agreements
Clinical Integration: The Balancing of Competition and Health Care Policies
Legal Privilege or Legal Inconvenience? Some Reflections on the Last Judgment of the ECJ in Relation to the Akzo Case
The Standard Setting Process and the European Commission’s Draft Horizontal Guidelines
The Interface Between Competition Law and Regulation in ChileWho’s the Boss?
Private Competition Litigation in Canada
International Cooperation in a New Era of Canadian Cartel Enforcement
Canada Enacts Significant Changes to its Foreign Investment Laws
When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
Sponsored Search Auctions: Simple Economics and Implications for Antitrust Policy
New Kids on the Block: Retailer-driven Vertical Practices and the New Regulation of Vertical Restraints in EU Competition Law
Europe’s Reform of the Regulatory Framework of Motor Vehicle Distribution
Deliberate Concealment in Cartel Claims
Economics Now Plays an Important Role at The Class Certification Stage for Antitrust Class Actions
Concentration, Contracting and Competition: Problems In Using The Packers & Stockyards Act To Supplement Antitrust
The Role of Behavioral Economics in Competition Law: A Judicial Perspective
What Does Behavioral Economics Mean for Competition Policy?
Behavioral Economics and Merger Analysis
Starr v. SONY BMG Music Entertainment: The Second Circuit’s Misapplication of Twombly in a Section 1 Sherman Act Conspiracy Case Alleging Parallel Conduct
A New Treaty, A New Commissioner, A New Competition Policy?
Monopoly and Resource Allocation
The AT&T Case: A Personal View
The Undead? A Comment on Professor Elhauge’s Paper
Patent Settlements and Reverse Payments Under EU Law
Liability of a Parent for the Antitrust Violations of a Subsidiary Under Asian Antitrust Law
Why Airline Antitrust Immunity Benefits Consumers
Cartel Facilitators Beware AC Treuhand Spurs Competition Authorities into Action
Competition Policy and Property Rights
Fight Against Cartels in Croatia: More than a Decade of Enforcement Practice
Sports Leagues and the Rule of Reason: How to Assess Internal Venture Restraints
Merger Action Group v. Secretary of State for BERR: External Control of the Scottish Economy, Merger Control and the Scottish ‘Ring-fence’: the LloydsTSB/HBOS Merger
Toward Judicial Realism: The Evolution of Rule 23
Hydrogen Peroxide: The Crest of the Wave
Book Review: How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark
Merger Trials: Looking for the Third Dimension
Institutional Aspects of European Commission Guidance in the Area of Antitrust Law
Price Squeeze Claims Succumb to Need for “Clear Rules”
The Commission Guidance on Predation: A Cautious Step In the Right Direction?
Abuse and Monopolization: Unilateral Conduct by Two Competition Authorities?
Some Critical Comments on the Commission’s Guidance Paper on Art. 82 EC
Preserving Competition After the Banking Meltdown
The Justice Department’s Section 2 Report: In Search of A General Theory of Exclusionary Conduct
The Context of Chinese Industrial Policy and the Antimonopoly Law
Congress and the Courts Tackle Credit Card Fees at Service Stations
Is a Safe Harbour for Insurance Still Justified?
DOJ v. Realtors: Back in the Ring
Opening the Curtain: Why Economics Is Taking Center Stage in Class Certification Battles in Antitrust Cases
Bundled Discounts as Competition for Distribution
Comments on the CFI’s Recent Ruling in Deutsche Telekom v. European Commission
The Importance of Antitrust in Standard Setting
Harnessing SDO Innovation to Reduce Holdup, Uncertainty, and Inefficiency
Regulation of Information and Advertising
Tying after Microsoft: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?
Microsoft: What Sort of Landmark?
South African Competition Policy in 2008: Key Priorities of the Competition Commission
The European Commission’s Decision in MasterCard: Issues Facing the Payment Card Industry for the Future
The European Commission’s Ruling in MasterCard: A Wise Decision?
Competitor Complaints About Google/DoubleClick Rejected
Critical Loss Analysis in the Whole Foods Case
Google/DoubleClick and the Power of Information to Raise Antitrust Concerns in Vertical Mergers
Lifting the Fog: Google/DoubleClick Demystified
The FTC’s Quixotic Pursuit of the Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger
The Antimonopoly Law in China: Where Do We Stand?
A New Kid on the Block: Korean Competition Law, Policy, and Economics
Leegin and the Future of Resale Price Maintenance
The Burden of Proof in the European Commission’s Draft Notice on Remedies
Recent Evolutions in Antitrust Enforcement: A Comparative Perspective
Time to Rethink Merger Policy?
Are Article 82 EC and Intellectual Property Interoperable? The State of the Law Pending the Judgment in Microsoft v. Commission
The Limits of Antitrust
Judicial Review in EC and U.S. Antitrust Law