In the December 2016 issue of The Antitrust Source, John Woodbury reviews two papers addressing the role of consent decrees in particular in resolving anticompetitive concerns, including CRA senior consultant Steve Salop’s “Modifying Merger Consent Decrees to Improve Merger Enforcement Policy.” To read the article, click the link below.
Assessing umbrella pricing incentives
When collusive agreements involve a subset of firms in an industry, they may create the incentive and ability for firms that are not participants in the cartel...