We must improve bailout and antitrust policies to minimize the potential for undesirable outcomes driven by political considerations.

While the United States continues to resolve the ambiguities in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the European Union has embraced a new regulatory framework for telecommunications that relies to a greater extent on antitrust principles. Participants at this conference will analyze the growing use, in both the United States and...

This paper presents a perspective on remedies in network industries that is informed by American and European experiences with antitrust law and sector-specific regulation.

U.S. businesses increasingly are coming under scrutiny from antitrust regulators across the Atlantic. At the European Commission alone, cases have been filed or are pending against leading technology firms--including Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Rambus, and Microsoft--as well as some of the most successful pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Merck. Does...

This book examines the effect of regulation on competition in long-distance telephone markets after the 1984 breakup of the Bell System.

This book is the first systematic study of the use and effectiveness of the antitrust consent decree in the federal enforcement of antitrust laws.

This will be a full-day conference on the prospects and directions of reform in insurance regulation. Cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, Georgia State University, and the Risk Foundation, the conference will include papers by well-known insurance and financial services scholars. Subjects will include the optional federal...

Press release/summary for the book Antitrust Consent Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less Is More, by Richard A. Epstein.