FTC hearings on the changing nature of competition: technological innovation and new global rivalry

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The FTC will hold hearings to reexamine the nature of competition among US businesses, and how the country should be defining itself in the global market. The agency wants to assess the proper role of antitrust law enforcement and make sure the laws properly consider potential efficiencies or innovations to be realized by mergers or collaboration. The FTC also wants to reexamine its treatment of distressed industries, the interrelationship of intellectual property and antitrust laws, and potential impediments to US small business activity.

Planning, Competition (Economics), International aspects, United States. Federal Trade Commission, international

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Joe Bain and good economic science: get rid of 'opinion' testimony in antitrust

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The author criticizes the suggestion of an ABA Antitrust Section member to eliminate empirical economist Joe Bain from the list of legitimate economists whose work is used as scientific evidence in antitrust litigations.

United States, Usage, Criticism and interpretation, Testimony, Evidence, Expert, Expert evidence, Evidence, Scientific, Scientific evidence (Law), Law and economics, Law and economics (Jurisprudence), Bain, Joe

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