The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1

Edited by Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

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The most comprehensive and up to date handbook on antitrust economics and its applications to antitrust law and policy around the world
Approaches developments in antitrust policy from both economics and law perspectives
Contributors reflect the multi-disciplined nature of antitrust scholarship
Explores significant changes in antitrust economics over the past 6 decades

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1

Edited by Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

Description

More than any other area of regulation, antitrust economics shapes law and policy in the United States, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In a number of different areas of antitrust, advances in theory and empirical work have caused a fundamental reevaluation and shift of some of the assumptions behind antitrust policy. This reevaluation has profound implications for the future of the field.

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics has collected chapters from many of the leading figures in antitrust. In doing so, this two volume Handbook provides an important reference guide for scholars, teachers, and practitioners. However, it is more than a merely reference guide. Rather, it has a number of different goals. First, it takes stock of the current state of scholarship across a number of different antitrust topics. In doing so, it relies primarily upon the economics scholarship. In some situations, though, there is also coverage of legal scholarship, case law developments, and legal policies.

The second goal of the Handbook is to provide some ideas about future directions of antitrust scholarship and policy. Antitrust economics has evolved over the last 60 years. It has both shaped policy and been shaped by policy. The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics will serve as a policy and research guide of next steps to consider when shaping the future of the field of antitrust.

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1

Edited by Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

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INTRODUCTION AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
1. Rationales for Antitrust: Economics and Other Bases
Daniel A. Crane
2. Antitrust Enforcement Regimes: Fundamental Differences
Keith N. Hylton
3. Economic Analysis of Antitrust Exemptions
Peter Carstensen
4. Healthcare Provider and Payer Markets
Cory S. Capps and David Dranove
5. International Antitrust Institutions
Oliver Budzinski
6. Competition Policy in Public Choice Perspective
Fred S. McChesney, Michael Reksulak, and William F. Shughart II
7. Antitrust Settlements
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
8. The Economics of Antitrust Class Actions
Roger D. Blair and Christine Piette Durrance
9. Behavioral Economics and Antitrust
Mark Armstrong and Steffen Huck
10. Experimental Economics in Antitrust
Wieland Müller and Hans-Theo Normann
11. Optimal Antitrust Remedies: A Synthesis
William H. Page
12. Private Antitrust Enforcement in the United States and the European Union: Standing and Antitrust Injury
Jeffrey L. Harrison
13. Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process
Aaron Edlin and Joseph Farrell
II. MONOPOLY: STRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
14. Monopoly and Dominant Firms: Antitrust Economics and Policy Approaches
Lawrence J. White
15. Market Definition
Louis Kaplow
16. Bilateral Monopoly: Economic Analysis and Antitrust Policy
Roger D. Blair and Christina DePasquale
17. Antitrust and the Economics of Networks
Daniel F. Spulber and Christopher S. Yoo
18. The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee
III. MERGERS
19. Efficiency Claims and Antitrust Enforcement
Howard Shelanski
20. Unilateral Effects
Bryan Keating and Robert D. Willig
21. Coordinated Effects: Evolution of Practice and Theory
Jith Jayaratne and Janusz Ordover
22. Buyer Power in Merger Review
Dennis W. Carlton, Mary Coleman, and Mark Israel
23. Vertical Mergers
Michael A. Salinger

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1

Edited by Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

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Author Information

Edited by Roger D. Blair, Walter J. Matherly Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, and Edited by D. Daniel Sokol, Associate Professor, Levin College of Law, University of Florida and Senior Research Fellow, George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center

Roger D. Blair is Walter J. Matherly Professor, Department of Economics at the University of Florida where he has taught for 40 years. His research interests center on antitrust economics and policy. In addition to numerous articles in economics journals and law reviews, he has published Law and Economics of Vertical Integration and Control, Antitrust Economics, Monopsony in Law and Economics, and Antitrust Law, Volume II with Areeda and Hovenkamp. Dr. Blair has also served as an expert witness in over 50 cases.

D. Daniel Sokol is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is co-editor of the Global Competition Law and Economics book series (Stanford University Press) and of the Oxford Handbook of Antitrust Compliance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He also is editor of the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog. Professor Sokol has provided technical assistance and capacity building to antitrust agencies and utilities regulators from around the world.

Contributors:

Mark Armstrong
Roger D. Blair
Oliver Budzinski
Cory S. Capps
Dennis W. Carlton
Peter Carstensen
Mary Coleman
Daniel A. Crane
Christina DePasquale
David Dranove
Christine Piette Durrance
Aaron Edlin
David S. Evans
Joseph Farrell
Jeffrey L. Harrison
Steffen Huck
Keith N. Hylton
Mark Israel
Jith Jayaratne
Louis Kaplow
Bryan Keating
Fred S. McChesney
Wieland Müller
Hans-Theo Normann
Janusz Ordover
William H. Page
Michael Reksulak
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Michael A. Salinger
Richard Schmalensee
Howard Shelanski
William F. Shughart II
Daniel F. Spulber
Lawrence J. White
Robert D. Willig
Christopher S. Yoo

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1

Edited by Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

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Reviews and Awards

"Antitrust economics (or competition economics) has truly been a vibrant field of research over the past decades ... The handbook by Blair and Sokol serves as a distinct proof of this progress in knowledge. Moreover, it nicely illustrates the close collaboration between law and economics." - Dr Arndt Christiansen, Economist, Bundeskartellamt (Economic Competition Law Review, 2016)