2023 Antitrust and Competition Conference
It’s OK to Ask for Help: An Antitrust Rooney Rule
The Stigler Center’s 2023 Antitrust and Competition conference seeks to answer the question: what lays beyond the consumer welfare standard? In advance of the discussions, ProMarket is publishing a...
Structuring a Structural Presumption for Merger Review
The consumer welfare standard can’t be saved with more theory. The problem is how it works in practice, and solving that means changing the...
Race and the Consumer Welfare Standard
The consumer welfare standard employs a collective consumer in its model when evaluating possibly anticompetitive behavior. This aggregated approach fails to recognize that such...
The Effective Competitive Constraint Standard
The consumer welfare standard, which broadly considers higher output and lower prices as its primary goals, is not well equipped to monitor the numerous...
Locating Competitive Process Claims in the Consumer Welfare Debate
Debates about the consumer welfare standard have failed to produce a consensus around either its scope or an alternative standard. Regardless of the outcome...
The Life of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Model
“Consumer welfare” as an objective of antitrust law and regulation has its origins in several vague and even conflicting ideas of how to evaluate...
Toward a Market Power Standard for Merger Review
The Stigler Center’s 2023 Antitrust and Competition conference seeks to answer the question: what lays beyond the consumer welfare standard? In advance of the...
The Reasonable Competitive Conduct Standard for Antitrust
The Stigler Center’s 2023 Antitrust and Competition conference seeks to answer the question: what lays beyond the consumer welfare standard? In advance of the...
