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The Handbook examines the most important issues that arise in antitrust economics. Leading scholars in the field provide detailed critical analysis of developments across a number of different antitrust topics along with a detailed review of the literature. The Handbook is invaluable as a research and teaching tool. Roger D. Blair is Walter J. Matherly Professor, Department of Economics at the University of Florida where he has taught for 40 years. His research interests center on antitrust economics and policy. In addition to numerous articles in economics journals and law reviews, he has published Law and Economics of Vertical Integration and Control, Antitrust Economics, Monopsony in Law and Economics, and Antitrust Law, Volume II with Areeda and Hovenkamp. Dr. Blair has also served as an expert witness in over 50 cases.; D. Daniel Sokol is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is co-editor of the Global Competition Law and Economics book series (Stanford University Press) and of the Oxford Handbook of Antitrust Compliance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He also is editor of the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog. Professor Sokol has provided technical assistance and capacity building to antitrust agencies and utilities regulators from around the world. I. MONOPOLIZATION: CONDUCT; 1. A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Exclusionary Conduct; B. Douglas Bernheim and Randal Heeb; 2. Predatory Pricing; Kenneth G. Elzinga and David E. Mills; 3. Raising Rivals’ Costs; David T. Scheffman and Richard S. Higgins; 4. Predatory Buying; John E. Lopatka; 5. Competitive Discounts and Antitrust Policy; Kevin M. Murphy, Edward A. Snyder, and Robert H. Topel; 6. Squeezing Claims: Refusals to Deal, Essentials Facilities, and Price Squeezes; Barak Orbach and Raphael Avraham; 7. Innovation and Antitrust Policy; Thomas F. Cotter; 8. Continental Drift in the Treatment of Dominant Firms: Article 102 TFEU in Contrast to SC 2 Sherman Act; Pierre Larouche and Maarten Pieter Schinkel; 9. Treatments of Monopolization in Japan and China; Ping Lin and Hiroshi Ohashi; 10. Monopolization in Developing Countries; Alberto Heimler and Kirtikumar Mehta; 11. Business Strategy and Antitrust Policy; Michael J. Mazzeo and Ryan C. McDevitt; II. VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND CONTRACTUAL EQUIVALENTS; 12. Resale Price Maintenance of Online Retailing; Benjamin Klein; 13. Exclusive Dealing; Howard Marvel; 14. Tying Arrangements; Erik Hovenkamp and Herbert Hovenkamp; 15. Vertical Restraints Across Jurisdictions; Ralph A. Winter and Edward M. Iacobucci; 16. Franchising and Exclusive Distribution: Adaptation and Antitrust; Francine Lafontaine and Margaret E. Slade; III. COLLUSION AMONG OSTENSIBLE COMPETITORS; 17. Cartels and Collusion: Economic Theory and Experimental Economics; Jay Pil Choi and Heiko Gerlach; 18. Cartels and Collusion: Empirical Evidence; Margaret C. Levenstein and Valerie Y. Suslow; 19. Tacit Collusion in Oligopoly; Edward J. Green, Robert C. Marshall, and Leslie M. Marx; 20. Auctions and Bid Rigging; Ken Hendricks, R. Preston McAfee, and Michael A. Williams; 21. Screening for Collusion as a Problem of Inference; Michael J. Doane, Luke M. Froeb, David S. Sibley, and Brijesh P. Pinto; 22. Competition Policy for Industry Standards; Richard Gilbert; 23. Antitrust Corporate Governance and Compliance; Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz and D. Daniel Sokol
