Blindside Deconcentration: Outsourcing, Power Retailers, and Antitrust

The outsourcing phenomenon gets Richard Steuer thinking about how it might affect traditional antitrust analysis in this insightful article reflecting on deconcentration in the American economy.

The Digital Age at the FTC: Current Issues in Electronic Document Production and Review

Bruce Hoffman, Deputy Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, describes how the FTC approaches the important, and sometimes painful, issue of electronic document production.

Spanning the Globe: What Every In-House Counsel at a Multinational Company Needs to Know: A Brown Bag Program

A distinguished panel of in-house and outside counsel discuss some of the practical legal challenges that face multinational corporations today.

Book Review: William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003)

A thoughtful and provocative review of Landes' and Posner's most recent contribution to the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law and the relevance of economic analysis.

Interview with Susan Creighton, Director, FTC Bureau of Competition

Susan Creighton outlines her main priorities and addresses the key issues currently before her as the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition.

Further Thoughts on Critical Loss

Michael Katz and Carl Shapiro join our debate on Critical Loss Analysis by responding to -- and offering corrections to -- David Scheffman's and Joe Simons' recent statement of their views on this crucial issue.

The State of Critical Loss: Reply to Scheffman and Simons

FTC economists Dan O'Brien and Abraham Wickelgren take issue with David Scheffman's and Joe Simons' recent defense of Critical Loss Analysis, concluding that the critical loss methodology has diverted attention away from the real factors that affect pre- and post-merger pricing incentives.

Paper Trail

Two notes, the first reviewing two new papers from the Fall 2003 Journal of Economic Perspectives that assess welfare effects of antitrust enforcement; the second providing an extended summary of a paper on the role of judicially endorsed economic theory in the control of economic expert testimony.