Resources

Agency Guidance and Policy

Primary materials and policy documents for understanding how agencies frame enforcement analysis.

• DOJ Antitrust Division Guidelines and Policy Statements
  U.S. antitrust guidelines, policy statements, and enforcement guidance.
• 2023 Merger Guidelines
  Current DOJ and FTC framework for merger analysis.
• FTC Merger Review
  FTC materials on merger review, second requests, and merger enforcement.
• European Commission Competition Policy
  EU antitrust, merger, state aid, and digital markets materials.
• OECD Competition
  Roundtables, recommendations, and technical competition policy resources.

Academic Texts

Research hubs and reference materials useful for deeper antitrust study.

• SSRN Antitrust & Competition Law eJournal
  Working papers and recent scholarship in antitrust and competition law.
• OECD Competition
  Competition policy roundtables, recommendations, toolkits, and research.
• DOJ and FTC Merger Guidelines
  Agency guidance on merger analysis and enforcement frameworks.
• International Competition Network
  Global competition agency materials and best-practice documents.

Journals

Periodicals and publications for more developed antitrust analysis.

• Antitrust Law Journal
  Scholarly articles published by the ABA Antitrust Law Section.
• Antitrust Source
  Practice-oriented articles on antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy.
• Journal of Competition Law & Economics
  Academic work on competition law, industrial organization, and economics.
• Concurrences
  Competition law journal materials, news, events, and comparative analysis.
• Applied Antitrust Law
  Survey course on applied antitrust law from Georgetown.

Economic Methods

Sources for empirical industrial organization, market definition, merger simulation, and antitrust economics.

• NBER Industrial Organization
  Working papers on industrial organization and competition economics.
• Journal of Industrial Economics
  Academic work on industrial organization, competition, and market structure.
• RAND Journal of Economics
  Research on applied microeconomics, IO, regulation, and strategy.
• Journal of Competition Law and Economics
  Scholarship at the intersection of competition law and economic analysis.

Empirical Data

Datasets and data portals that can support market structure, concentration, pricing, and industry analysis.

• U.S. Census Business Dynamics Statistics
  Firm and establishment dynamics by industry, geography, and firm age.
• U.S. Census County Business Patterns
  Establishment counts, employment, and payroll by geography and industry.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
  Labor market, price, productivity, and industry data.
• BEA Industry Economic Accounts
  Industry-level output, value added, and related economic accounts.
• SEC EDGAR
  Company filings for firm strategy, risks, acquisitions, and market disclosures.

Working Papers

Research feeds for newer antitrust scholarship and empirical work before it appears in journals.

• SSRN Antitrust and Competition Law eJournal
  Legal scholarship and working papers on antitrust and competition law.
• NBER Antitrust
  NBER research tagged to antitrust topics.
• Centre for Economic Policy Research
  Economics working papers, including IO, competition, and policy research.
• Tobin Center Competition Policy Initiative
  Research on competition policy, market power, and enforcement design.

Treatises and Advanced Texts

Long-form references for doctrine, policy, and technical antitrust analysis.

• Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application, Areeda and Hovenkamp
• Antitrust Law and Economics, Keith Hylton
• Competition Policy: Theory and Practice, Massimo Motta
• The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy, Jonathan Baker
• The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol