The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2018–2019

Evan Gee, Craig Peters and Jeffrey M. Wilder ()
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Evan Gee: U.S. Department of Justice
Craig Peters: U.S. Department of Justice
Jeffrey M. Wilder: U.S. Department of Justice

Review of Industrial Organization, 2019, vol. 55, issue 4, No 2, 537-550

Abstract: Abstract This article highlights the economic analysis that underlay certain enforcement efforts of the Antitrust Division over the past year. The Division’s challenge of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner expressly incorporated bargaining theory into the theory of harm; this provided for a rich theoretical framework for evaluating the merger’s impact. The Division also reached a settlement with Atrium Health that prevented the large hospital network from imposing contractual restrictions that undercut health insurers’ efforts to create tiered networks and other plans that promote competition among providers.

Keywords: Antitrust; Vertical merger; Foreclosure; Healthcare; Telecommunications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-019-09726-1

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