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Tim Brennan

Tim Brennan is professor emeritus at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was a staff economist in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and later served as senior staff economist on industrial organization with the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has held the T.D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics with the Canadian Competition Bureau and was the Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission in 2014.
Antitrust and Competition

In a Flawed Antitrust Paradigm Shift, Tacit Collusion May Be One Area Worth Exploring

Tim Brennan
Tim Brennan finds the new shift in antitrust thought and enforcement connected to the Neo-Brandeisian movement to be flawed for the most part. However, he writes that a reinvigorated focus on tacit collusion, which some have blamed on the rise of prices for groceries and apartment rents, may deserve consideration and further study.

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