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Department Of Justice Antitrust Enforcement, 1955-1997: An Empirical Study, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Joseph C. Gallo, Joseph L. Craycraft, Charles J. Parker
Department Of Justice Antitrust Enforcement, 1955-1997: An Empirical Study, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Joseph C. Gallo, Joseph L. Craycraft, Charles J. Parker
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This is an empirical study of Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement of the antitrust laws. Its purpose is fourfold:
1.To update Posner's study "A Statistical Study of Antitrust Enforcement" (Posner, 1970, pp. 365-419).
2.To provide consistent and comparable measures of antitrust enforcement effort by the Department of Justice.
3.To report these measurements in a concise and systematic way in order to encourage empirical studies of antitrust issues.
4.To explore some implications for antitrust issues.
The purpose is to present the overall historical record of DOJ antitrust activity as well as some patterns in that history. More detailed analysis is left …