Antitrust and Regulation

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In the first part of the course, we will discuss the economic theory that should guide antitrust laws of the United States and discuss the actual current and historical antitrust laws and key antitrust cases in the context of underlying economic theory. In the second part of the course, we discuss the costs, benefits, methods, and outcomes of economic regulation from a theoretical standpoint, and then examine the actual U.S. experience in a large number of industry case studies. We will spend significant time on recent and ongoing antitrust and regulatory cases.