In this article, CRA’s Yajing Jiang and her coauthor review the recent economic literature on airline partnerships, explain the intuitions behind canonical economic theoretical models, and summarize the empirical findings of the price and non-price effects of the various forms of partnerships. Given the mixed empirical findings, the article underscores the importance of antitrust practitioners considering facts backed by documents and data when citing numerical estimates from the literature.
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...