TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kaplow,Louis
AU  - Shapiro,Carl
TI  - Antitrust
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12867
PY  - 2007
Y2  - January 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12867
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12867.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Louis Kaplow
Harvard University
Hauser 322
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-4101
Fax: 617/496-4880
E-Mail: meskridge@law.harvard.edu

Carl Shapiro
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20530
Tel: 202-514-0731
Fax: 202-514-0306
E-Mail: shapiro@haas.berkeley.edu
AB  - This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy.  We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization.  In each area, we select the most relevant portions of current economic knowledge and use that knowledge to critically assess central features of antitrust policy.  Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics where further analytical and empirical exploration would be useful.
ER  -