José Azar and Isabel Tecu, with Martin C. Schmalz, wrote a paper entitled “Anti-Competitive Effects of Common Ownership.” In this paper, using the airline industry as a laboratory, the authors provide evidence that common ownership by large diversified institutional investors has adverse effects on product market competition.
An economic interpretation of Rule 23(b)(3) for antitrust classes
In this article, CRA’s Sean Durkin explains the economic incentives behind class definitions in antitrust cases and why those incentives can lead to classes...