An Economic Approach - See How Day-to-Day Business Decisions May Affect Your Clients' Potential Antitrust Liability.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c33174) has announced the addition of "Antitrust: An Economic Approach" to their offering.

Antitrust: An Economic Approach focuses on the economic reasoning behind antitrust enforcement and examines how day-to-day business decisions may affect your clients' potential antitrust liability.

The book covers: antitrust defenses and exemptions; antitrust laws of the European Union; the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules; takeovers and anti-takeover statutes; the standing of targets, competitors and employees who attack mergers and acquisitions; the Robinson-Patman Act; market power; vertical combinations; franchising; boycotts; and changes in the computer software and health care industries, all from an economic perspective.

The economic analysis also features the impact of technological trends and corporate reorganization on mergers and acquisitions; the future of antitrust law and policy in light of accelerated technological, scientific and social change; and significant developments, such as disapproval of false statement prosecutions, the importance of interlocking officers under the Clayton Act and anticompetitive uses of employee pension and benefit plans. This book is updated as needed, generally two times each year.

Topics covered include:

* The Principal United States Antitrust Laws

* Antitrust in the Twenty-First Century

* The Marketplace: Guiding Image of Antitrust

* Market Power

* Section 7 of the Clayton Act

* The Social and Economic Role of Litigation Concerning Market Power

* An Overview of the Exercise of Power

* Horizontal Price Fixing and Allocation of Territories or Customers

* Vertical Combinations

* Leverage

* Price Discrimination Under The Robinson-Patman Act

* Franchising and Dealer Relationships

* Interlocking Relationships

* Group Boycotts

* Trade Associations

* Arrangements Affecting Non-Price Terms

* General Principles in Conduct Cases

* Commerce

* Government Action and Antitrust

* First Amendment Considerations and Related Issues

* Exemptions

* Labor-Management Relations

* Patents, Trademarks and Antitrust

* Commercial Conduct

* The New Emphasis on Expedition

* Investigation of Antitrust Issues

* Public Enforcement

* Issues Concerning Private Enforcement

* Interplay of Antitrust Remedies and Substantive Law

* Antitrust and Innovation

* Antitrust Strategy

* Impact of Antitrust on the Economy, Business and Other Interests

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c33174