Antitrust law has been characterized as godfather to competition in health care, as landmark cases removed professional restraints of trade and challenged anticompetitive joint ventures and networks that had inhibited market approaches. More recently, antitrust may seem more like an absentee father, as unchecked consolidation over the past fifteen years resulted in markets with dominant provide...

Most economists agree that the net effect of the deregulation movement in the United States has been to increase efficiency, with resulting increases in consumer welfare. Because deregulation contemplates the substitution of competition for regulation as the “regulator” of the deregulated markets, deregulation increases the importance of antitrust law as a means of preventing unregulated firms ...

Research background: Competition laws have become widespread and as a rule sanctioning nature. DANVERS refers an exponential increase in legal systems that introduced competition recent years, accounting for more than 127 jurisdictions hereto. Specifically concerning the trend of criminalizing cartels, SHAFFER NESBITT consider it due to transnational interests, SÁNCHEZ defends link between econ...

Abstract One of the most profound changes in industrial landscape last decade has been growth business ecosystems—groups connected firms, drawing on (digital) platforms that leverage their complementors and lock customers, exploiting “bottlenecks” emerge new industry architectures. This created asymmetries power, where “field” competition is not relevant product market, as usually case law, but...