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Antitrust

Louis Kaplow
Harvard University - Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Carl Shapiro
University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group

January 2007

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 575

Abstract:
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of current economic knowledge and use that knowledge to critically assess central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics where further analytical and empirical exploration would be useful.

JEL Classifications: K21, L12, L13, L40, L41, L42

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Date posted: February 06, 2007 ; Last revised: February 06, 2007

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Kaplow, Louis and Shapiro, Carl, Antitrust (January 2007). Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 575. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=961264

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Louis Kaplow (Contact Author) Harvard University - Harvard Law School ( email ) 1575 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 United States 617-495-4101 (Phone) 617-496-4880 (Fax) HOME PAGE: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=32&show=bibliography
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Carl Shapiro University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group ( email ) Haas School of Business University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 United States 510-642-5905 (Phone) 510-643-1420 (Fax) HOME PAGE: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/