This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust covers a wide-range of areas including:




the meaning of consumer welfare


mergers in monopsony markets


unilateral effects


private and criminal enforcement


implementing competition policy in regulated sectors
• abuse of intellectual property rights


competition remedies


international enforcement cooperation


complainants' rights


dominant firm pricing


tying and bundling.


The Handbook also includes discursive consideration of the similarities and differences among the various regimes on either side of the Atlantic, as well as a look to future trends and applications in regional and global contexts.

Offering a comparative view of pressing antitrust issues, this Handbook will be of great interest to academics, lawyers, practitioners and officials.