Technical resources are aimed at readers who want denser legal materials, empirical tools, policy documents, and research pipelines for antitrust analysis.
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.
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