What Next for the Horizontal Merger Guidelines?
Recommendations by two distinguished economists for updating the new Horizontal Merger Guidelines to correct recent merger underenforcement.
Spring 2022
Volume 36, Issue 2
Cover Stories
Antitrust Reform: A Litigation Perspective
This article identifies unnecessary burdens placed on antitrust enforcement and offers suggestions for comprehensive changes and ways federal and state enforcers can collaborate to address these chal…
Congressional Antitrust Bills Seek to Regulate a New Internet Era
A review of bills before Congress to regulate dominant platforms, scrutinize exclusionary and leveraging conduct by monopolists, reform merger review policy, address monopsony conduct, and bolster pr…
Algorithmic Pricing in Horizontal Merger Review: An Initial Assessment
The authors offer a primer on how pricing algorithms work in practice and explain how merger investigations should take pricing algorithms into account.
Preserving Potential Entry is Not the Holy Grail in Vertical Merger Enforcement
This article explains, using the FTC's Illumina/Grail merger challenge as an example, why the forthcoming revisions to the Vertical Merger Guidelines should be corrected to eliminate a misplaced conc…
Articles and Features
The Google Shopping Judgment of the General Court of Justice of the European Union
This article explores the reasoning behind the landmark "Google Shopping" decision in Europe that Google abused its dominant position in the online general search market, with insights on abusive con…
Mexican Competition Law: Interview with Alejandra “Jana” Palacios
In this interview, Alejandra "Jana" Palacios former President of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission, shares her views on the future of competition enforcement in Mexico and elsewhere.
A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust
An entertaining guide through the many ways in which antitrust, once a specialty that few knew about, has reached mainstream prominence on stage, screen, television, and paper.