Tag: Policy

Lapo Filistrucchi, Jan 07, 2011 There is a lot of talk nowadays, among competition policy practitioners, about two-sided markets and two-sided platforms. It is indeed...

Maurice Stucke, Dec 16, 2010   Antitrust policy in the United States has roughly twenty to thirty year cycles: (i) after initial dormancy, 1900-1920, the promise...

Daniel Sokol, Dec 16, 2010 Predicting the future is difficult. Advances in economics and antitrust law's ability to incorporate such changes have been tremendous in...

Kent Bernard, Dec 16, 2010 There is a tendency, especially among those of us who count ourselves as antitrust lawyers or economists, to think that...

Ken Daly, Dec 10, 2010 On October 20, 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, the Pittsburgh Press reported on a meeting of American...

Ashley Fischer, David Marx, Oct 11, 2010 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") established various mechanisms to make healthcare providers more accountable for...

Gregory Pelnar, Oct 11, 2010 Are "clinically integrated" physician networks that jointly contract with third-party payors such as Blue Cross little more than "candy-coated" cartels?...

Melinda Hatton, Oct 11, 2010 During the year-long debate over health care reform, removing barriers to clinical integration received far less attention than it should...

Ana Paula Martinez, Jul 14, 2010 According to the OECD 2010 Competition Law & Policy in Brazil-A Peer Review, "Brazil's anti-cartel programme is now widely...

Graham Reynolds, Aug 31, 2010 As one of the leading international antitrust regulators, Canada's Competition Bureau ("Bureau") undertakes many multinational investigations, most commonly in coordination...