By Daniel P. O’Brien –  An intense policy debate rages over the competitive effects of common ownership. But the empirical

By Holly J. Gregory –  This article considers the potential anticompetitive effects of common ownership by institutional investors in concentrated

By Miguel Antón, José Azar, Mireia Giné & Luca X. Lin –  Acquisitions are on average value-destroying for acquirer shareholders,

By Anna Tzanaki –  Is common ownership the Doomsday Machine for the operation of free markets, competition and capitalism as

By Martin Schmalz –  A significant gap persists between the economic literature on common ownership and the legal and public-policy

By Thomas A. Lambert & Michael E. Sykuta –  Antitrust scholars have recently proposed additional interventions — beyond enforcement of

Dear Readers, The Healthcare Sector continues to be fertile ground for antitrust issues, whether in the case of hospital or

By Lisl J. Dunlop & Cristina M. Fernandez At the same time that vertical mergers have become more commonplace in

By Jeffrey W. Brennan A developing economic literature focuses on price effects from mergers between non-competing hospitals. “Cross-market” mergers occur

By Thomas L. Greaney Antitrust enforcers are taking a second look at vertical mergers as a large body of theoretical