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Goals of competition law

Elhauge, Einer R., Harvard, Not Chicago: Which Antitrust School Drives Recent Supreme Court Decisions?. ; Competition Policy International, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2007. (SSRN)

Mats Bergman, Malcolm B Coate, Maria Jakobsson, Shawn W Ulrick, Comparing Merger Policies: The European Union versus the United States, Working Paper, March 2007 (SSRN)

Kerber, Wofgang, The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law (July 2008) (SSRN)

Priest, George L, 'The Limits of Antitrust and the Chicago School Tradition' (2009) Journal of Competition Law and Economics (SSRN)

Stucke, Maurice, 'Morality and Antitrust' (2006) Columbia Business Law Review 443 (SSRN)

Stucke, Maurice, 'Reconsidering Competition and the Goals of Competition Law' (2010) (SSRN)

Waller, Spencer Weber, Antitrust as Consumer Choice: Comments on the New Paradigm. University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 535, 2001. (SSRN)

Wright, Joshua D., Overshot the Mark? A Simple Explanation of the Chicago School's Influence on Antitrust (March 31, 2009). Competition Policy International, Forthcoming; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-23. (SSRN)

Economics

Market definition

Malcolm B Coate and Jeffrey H Fischer, 'Why Markets Matter for Evidence-Based Merger Analysis' (January 2010) Oxera Agenda (SSRN)

Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro - Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition, Working Paper, 9 December 2008 (SSRN)

Behavioral economics

Stucke, Maurice E., Am I a Price-Fixer? A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Cartels (January 12, 2010) in Criminalising Cartels: A Critical Interdisciplinary Study of an International Regulatory Movement (2010); University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 97. (SSRN)

Efficiencies in merger analysis

Christian R Fackelmann, Dynamic Efficiency Considerations in EC Merger Control - An Intractable Subject or a Promising Chance for Innovation?, Working Paper 2006

Miguel de la Mano - For the customer’s sake: The competitive effects of efficiencies in European merger control, Enterprise Papers No 11, 2002