Mergers
Paging Don Qixote: The Last Hope for American Merger Law
Of the eight or nine hundred antitrust claims each year, few are private merger claims, and almost all of them fail. That is why...
Can Horizontal Mergers Actually Boost Competition?
Research by Dirk Hackbarth and Bart Taub shows the potential to merge in the future increases competition prior to merging. Hence--in contrast to the...
How Might A Justice Kavanaugh Impact Antitrust Jurisprudence?
Throughout his judicial career, the US president’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, has written three antitrust opinions. Here, Stephen Calkins of...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (July 7–14)
Brett Kavanaugh is expected to bring his pro-business bent to the Supreme Court; the DOJ is appealing the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval; Britain fines...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (June 30–July 7)
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA; a new report finds that digital platforms are not fully complying with the EU’s new privacy rules; Google,...
Ohio v. Amex, Supply Chain Fairness, and the Inadequacy of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Standard
SCOTUS Forum. The University of Kentucky's Ramsi Woodcock argues that the problem with the Ohio v. Amex ruling is not that the Supreme Court got the outcome...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (June 16–23)
AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner continues to make waves; a New York federal judge says the entire Consumer of Financial Protection Bureau needs to...
No Fair Hearing for the DoJ in the AT&T-Time Warner Decision
Antitrust expert Chris Sagers of Cleveland State University enumerates the failings of Judge Richard Leon’s dismissal last week of the Department of Justice’s attempt...
AT&T Shellacs the Government in Time Warner Merger Case
Professor Randy Picker of the University of Chicago Law School offers an early take on yesterday’s AT&T-Time Warner decision.
The US government got its clock...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 4–May 12)
A whistleblower alleges fraud in the audits of Silicon Valley companies; AT&T acknowledges that hiring Michael Cohen was a "bad mistake"; new analysis finds that...
