New Antitrust Laws for the “New Economy”?

Prepared Statement of M. Howard Morse before the Antitrust Modernization Commission Hearing on Antitrust and the New Economy

I am honored to have been asked to appear before the Antitrust Modernization Commission to address the “New Economy” issues that the Commission is studying. Many of you on the Commission are well versed in these issues based on you own experiences. I will offer my perspective today based on my ten years at the Federal Trade Commission, where I spent much of my time enforcing the antitrust laws ...

Towards A Market-Based Approach: The Privatization and Micro-Economization of EU Antitrust Law Enforcement

The paper addresses the interface of the recent antitrust reform of the European Union (EU) and the ongoing transformation of the power relations between shareholders and management as one of the key aspects of corporate governance. From the mid-1990s onwards, the EU competition regime has undergone a series of reforms. The 2004 antitrust reform, generally referred to as the ‘Modernization’, co...

Introduction: Antitrust and Health Care

Health care markets and related sectors of the economy like insurance provide essential services in our society. They have been undergoing rapid change for at least the past decade, yet some thirtyseven to thirty-nine million citizens lack health care insurance at one time or another each year; rapid inflation of costs has more often been the case than not; and equal access to the system for bo...

The Microsoft Case 10 Years Later: Antitrust and New Leading "New Economy" Firms

For Release the afternoon of Dec. 2,1966 STATEMENT by COMMISSIONER EVERETTE MACINTYRE on CONGLOMERATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST LAWS Before the PRACTICING LAW INSTITUTE New York,N.Y. December 2, 1966 CONGLOMERATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST LAWS