January 07, 2013
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or eCommerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
January 07, 2013
The Changing Health Care Sector: Tough New Challenges for Antitrust...
Robert Leibenluft, Jul 17, 2012 The past few years have been marked by increased consolidation among health care providers. Hospitals are merging with each other, physician groups are combining to...
January 07, 2013
Islam, Islamic Countries, and Competition Law: From Past Glory to...
Maher Dabbah, May 29, 2012 …Despite this rich history and past glory, Islamic countries did not carry the mechanism of economic regulation, in the form of Hisba, into modern times....
January 04, 2013
Ireland: 2012 continued downward slope for major merger activity
The Irish Competition Authority has reported a 17.5 percent drop in large merger activity compared with last year, according to reports. According to Authority figure, 33 deals were examined in...
January 03, 2013
Islam, Islamic Countries, and Competition Law: From Past Glory to...
Maher Dabbah, May 29, 2012 …Despite this rich history and past glory, Islamic countries did not carry the mechanism of economic regulation, in the form of Hisba, into modern times. Indeed,...
January 03, 2013
The Changing Health Care Sector: Tough New Challenges for Antitrust...
Robert Leibenluft, Jul 16, 2012 The past few years have been marked by increased consolidation among health care providers. Hospitals are merging with each other, physician groups are combining to...
December 20, 2012
Brantley Versus NBC Universal: Where’s the Beef?
Dennis Carlton, Michael Waldman, Dec 20, 2012 As with other important cases involving firms such as Kodak and Microsoft, the recent Brantley case raises interesting questions concerning appropriate antitrust policy...
December 20, 2012
Tying, Foreclosure, and Exclusion (1990)(reprint)
Dec 20, 2012 In recent years, the “leverage theory” of tied good sales has faced heavy and influential criticism. In an important sense, though, the models used by its critics...
December 19, 2012
Zimbabwe: Largest city’s Council investigated for monopolistic behavior
Reports are emerging that the Competition and Tariff Commission has begun probing Harare City Council. Harare is Zimbabwe’s largest city. According to a statement by the CTC, the authority is...