Antitrust (Over-?) Confidence

Antitrust (Over-?) Confidence

On October 5, 2007, a group of antitrust scholars convened on Chicago’s near northside to discuss monopolization law. In the course of their freewheeling but fascinating conversation, a number of broad themes emerged. Those themes can best be understood in contrast to a body of antitrust scholarship that was born six miles to the south, at the University of Chicago. Most notably, the northside ...

Bounded Support and Confidence over Evidential Databases

In this work, we propose a new definition of support and confidence measures based on interval representation. Moreover, a new algorithm, named EBS-Apriori, based on these bounded measures and several pruning strategies is developed. A new associative classifier, named WEvAC, based on fusion and weighting technique is implemented and tested. Experiments are conducted using several database benc...

Antitrust Laws: the Nurse Wages Antitrust Litigation

Some Thoughts on "Antitrust Policy" and the Antitrust Community

Antitrust Enforcement ∗

This article explores the enforcement of those laws intended to promote competitive markets through the prohibition of certain practices such as price-fixing, welfare-reducing mergers, and monopolization. The discovery and prosecution of violations are examined including the role of leniency programs. The determination of penalties is investigated with an assessment of their relationship to opt...