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CRA’s Antitrust & Competition Economics Practice is a leader in providing economic analysis, advice, and testimony for antitrust and merger cases worldwide. Our work as antitrust experts focuses on rigorous empirical assessments of whether competition in a market has been (or will be) adversely affected, leaving consumers to face higher ...
Antitrust law and competition policy are concerned with the creation and maintenance of market power.
- What Is Antitrust?
- Understanding Antitrust
- The Antitrust Laws
- Special Considerations
- Major Example of Antitrust Law
- The Bottom Line
Antitrust laws are regulations that encourage competition by limiting the market power of any particular firm. This often involves ensuring that mergers and acquisitions don’t overly concentrate market power or form monopolies, as well as breaking up firms that have become monopolies. Antitrust laws also prevent multiple firms from colluding or for...
Antitrust laws are the broad group of state and federal laws that are designed to make sure businesses are competing fairly. The “trust” in antitrust refers to a group of businesses that team up or form a monopoly to dictate pricing in a particular market. Supporters say antitrust laws are necessary and that competition among sellers gives consumer...
The Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Clayton Act are the key laws that set the groundwork for antitrust regulation.Predating the Sherman Act, the Interstate Commerce Act was also beneficial in establishing antitrust regulations, although it was less influential than some of the others. Congress passed the Interstate Commerce A...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) are tasked with enforcing federal antitrust laws. In some cases, these two authorities may also work with other regulatory agencies to ensure that certain mergers fit the public interest. The FTC mainly focuses on segments of the economy where consumer spendingis high, inclu...
In January 2023, the DOJ and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google, alleging that the search giant has illegal monopolization of the digital advertising business. “Today’s complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominan...
Antitrust laws regulate the concentration of economic power to prevent companies from price colluding or creating monopolies. Proponents of antitrust laws argue that they keep consumer prices lower and foster innovation through increased competition. Critics say antitrust regulations intervene in the free market and reduce efficiency. Antitrust law...
This volume chronicles key flashpoints in this process, from an economics point of view. It provides 18 contributions from leading antitrust economists involved in recent groundbreaking merger, monopolization and anticompetitive-agreement cases on both sides of the Atlantic.
21 de mar. de 2008 · Experts examine the application of economic theory to antitrust issues in both the United States and Europe, discussing mergers, agreements, abuses of domina...
In other systems, the centrality of antitrust economics to antitrust law (typically called competition law) and policy has not been established. Instead, cutting-edge antitrust economic analysis competes with non-antitrust economics goals.
The GCR 100 is our comprehensive listing and analysis of the world's top antitrust and competition practices. It also offers a picture of the world's leading economics consultancies for competition advice.
