Alexander Raskovich

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Director of Research, Global Antitrust Institute

3301 Fairfax Drive

Arlington, VA 22201

United States

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Scholarly Papers (33)

1.

Potential and Nascent Competition in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-16
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Apr 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Lodestar Law and Economics
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antitrust, competition policy, horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, Merger Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Clayton Act, Sherman Act, FTC Act, market power, market concentration, nascent competition, potential competition, killer acquisitions, counterfactuals

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Always or Almost Always Anticompetitive? The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the FTC’s Proposed Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Contracts

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-08
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Apr 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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labor contracts, non-compete clauses, monopsony, vertical restraints, contracting externalities, natural experiments, statistical inference, calibration, training, human capital, trade secrets

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Colluding to Go Green: Global Antitrust Institute Comments on the Austrian Federal Competition Authority’s Draft Guidelines to Exempt 'Sustainability Agreements'

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-29
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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horizontal agreement, competition policy, efficiencies, sustainability, greenwashing, carbon tax, European Green Deal, Austrian Federal Competition Authority

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Justified Regulatory Reform in Antitrust Requires Cost-Benefit Analysis: Global Antitrust Institute Comment to the Australian Treasury on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's Digital Platform Services Inquiry, Interim Report No. 5 (Regulatory Reform)

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-03
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Jan 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Lodestar Law and Economics
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digital platforms, targeted obligations, regulation, self-preferencing, defaults, interoperability, cost-benefit analysis, ACCC, GDPR

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Self-Regulation in Standard-Setting Organizations: Frand Royalties in the Process of Discovering Standards

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-37, Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-037
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2022
Alexander Raskovich
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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standard setting, standard-essential patent, FRAND, incremental value rule

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On the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Digital Platform Services Inquiry's Discussion Paper for Interim Report No. 5: Updating Competition and Consumer Law for Digital Platform Services, Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-12
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Apr 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, ACCC, Australian Competition Tribunal, digital platform services, competition law, competition policy, antitrust, social media, app stores

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Monopsony and Labor Markets in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment of the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-17
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 22 Apr 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, competition policy, horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, Merger Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Clayton Act, Sherman Act, FTC Act, market power, market concentration, labor markets, monopsony

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IP Rights Delayed are IP Rights Denied: The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the European Commission’s 2023 Proposal to Regulate Standard-Essential Patents

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-12
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Aug 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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intellectual property rights, standard-essential patents, IP licensing, regulation

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Efficiencies in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-18
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Apr 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, competition policy, horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, Merger Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Clayton Act, Sherman Act, FTC Act, market power, efficiencies, competitive process, competitive externalities, compensating marginal cost reduction, Herfindahl-Hir

10.

Legal Restraints on Single-Firm Conduct in the Digital Age: The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the European Commission’s “Call for Evidence” and Concurrent Announcements Regarding Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance Under Article 102, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-09
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 28 Apr 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Exclusionary abuse, abuse of dominance, Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as-efficient-competitor test, effective competitive structure

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Let the Fastest Runners Sprint: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on the European Commission’s Calls for Contributions on Competition in Virtual Worlds and Generative AI

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-07
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Mar 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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Virtual Worlds, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Sectoral Regulation, Deregulation, European Commission, Antitrust, Competition Law

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The 2022 Revision of China's Anti-Monopoly Law: Global Antitrust Institute Comments on Draft Provisions of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China Concerning Application of the Law in Civil Disputes Arising from Monopolistic Conduct

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-01
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Lodestar Law and Economics, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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China, Anti-Monopoly Law, monopoly agreements, monopoly conduct, intellectual property, internet platforms, resale price maintenance

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The DOJ/FTC's Problematic Approach to Potential Competition: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the Proposed Merger Guidelines

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-16
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Sep 2023
John M. Yun, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Abbott B. Lipsky and Alexander Raskovich
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potential competition, draft merger guidelines, market concentration, antitrust, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, entry analysis

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Presumptions in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-15
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Apr 2022
Lodestar Law and Economics, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, competition policy, horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, Merger Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Clayton Act, Sherman Act, FTC Act, legal presumptions, monopoly, market power, market concentration, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

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Purpose, Harms, and Scope in Merger Review: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-14
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Apr 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, competition policy, horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, Merger Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Clayton Act, Sherman Act, FTC Act

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Before the Canadian Competition Bureau: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on Draft Enforcement Guidance on Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-04
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 29 Mar 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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wage-fixing, no-poaching, Competition Act of Canada, per se liability, criminal sanctions, information exchange, ancillary restraints, franchisor-franchisee coordination, intra-enterprise coordination, employment-independent contractor distinction

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Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines’ Emphasis on Structural Antitrust

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-15
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Sep 2023
Bruce H. Kobayashi, Abbott B. Lipsky, Alexander Raskovich and John M. Yun
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antitrust, mergers, concentration, market structure, Herfindahl-Hirschman-Index, Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Vertical Merger Guidelines, Draft Merger Guidelines

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Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, on the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and National Institute of Standards Draft Policy Statement on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-02
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Feb 2022
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Lodestar Law and Economics, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, standard essential patents (SEPs), standard setting organizations (SSOs), standard development organizations (SDOs), FRAND, patent holdup & holdout, patent injunctions, USPTO, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology, F/RAND, DOJ

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Supply-Side Factors Identify Market Participants, Not Markets: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the EC's Draft Notice on Defining Relevant Markets for EU Competition Law

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-02
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Jan 2023
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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competition, antitrust, market definition, supply-side substitution

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Zero-Price Platform Services: There is No Free Lunch in Applying the “No Free Lunch” Principle

CPI Antitrust Chronicle, July 2022, No. 2, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 22-35
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Aug 2022
Alexander Raskovich and John M. Yun
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, competition policy, multisided platforms, zero-price services, no free lunch principle, network effects, privacy, data collection

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What's Gone Up is Coming Down? Vertical Mergers in the 2023 DOJ-FTC Draft Merger Guidelines, Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-17
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Sep 2023
Alexander Raskovich, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Abbott B. Lipsky and John M. Yun
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, vertical mergers, horizontal merger guidelines, vertical merger guidelines, draft merger guidelines, market share, market concentration, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, presumption of harm

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Presumptive or Presumptuous? The Global Antitrust Institute’s Comment on the EC’s Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuse

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-24
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Nov 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and Global Antitrust Institute
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exclusionary abuse, Article 102, European Commission, consumer welfare

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Global Antitrust Institute Response to the ITA-USPTO-NIST Request for Information on Standards-Essential Patents

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-21
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Nov 2023
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Standards-Essential Patents, Innovation, Standardization

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Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Reform Request for Contributions: Economic and Competitive Aspects of Digital Platforms

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-11
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 May 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Global Antitrust Institute
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Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, digital platform companies, digital sector, antitrust enforcement

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Analyzing Vertical Mergers with Auctions Upstream

Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 21-4
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Jun 2022
Joseph Podwol and Alexander Raskovich
Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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vertical mergers, merger simulation, auctions, antitrust, competition

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Radical New Burdens for Marginal Benefit: Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on Proposed HSR Rule Amendments

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 23-18
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Sep 2023
Abbott B. Lipsky, Alexander Raskovich, Bruce H. Kobayashi and John M. Yun
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antitrust, premerger notification, market for corporate control, notification burden, rule amendments, Administrative Procedures Act, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act

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Private Equity Buyouts are Part of the Competitive Process in the Market for Corporate Control: Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC-HHS Request for Information on Consolidation in Health Care

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-13
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 07 Jun 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Global Antitrust Institute and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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private equity, leveraged buyouts, takeovers, corporate greed

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Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute on the Australian Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-2025 – Final Report

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-25
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Nov 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Global Antitrust Institute
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antitrust, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, ACCC, Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-2025, competition law and economics

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Do Bigger Firms Get Better Terms? Evidence from Pay TV

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Feb 2023
Robert Arons and Alexander Raskovich
Georgetown University and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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bargaining, license fees, multichannel video programming distributors

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Breaking Barriers or Breaking Bad? The FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam, Vol. 35, pp. 1-9 (2023), George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-22
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 26 Aug 2024
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labor contracts, non-compete clauses, monopsony, vertical restraints, contracting externalities, natural experiments, statistical inference, calibration, training, human capital, trade secrets

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Conflict or Continuity? An Analysis of the 2023 Merger Guidelines

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 31, pp. 1043-1056 (2024), George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-26
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2024
Alexander Raskovich
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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merger guidelines, reasonable probability, market share, efficiencies, economics

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Global Antitrust Institute Comment on Australia’s Exposure Draft Regarding Amendments to the Review of Mergers and Acquisitions

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-21
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Aug 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Global Antitrust Institute and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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merger review, pre-merger notification, decision error

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Comentário Do Global Antitrust Institute Para a Tomada De Subsídios Da Secretaria De Reformas Econômicas – Ministério Da Fazenda Do Brasil Aspectos Econômicos E Concorrenciais Das Plataformas Digitais

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 24-10
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 May 2024
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Global Antitrust Institute
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plataformas digitais, Ministério da Fazenda do Brasil, antitruste