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Corporate Governance And Competition Policy, Spencer Weber Waller
Corporate Governance And Competition Policy, Spencer Weber Waller
Spencer Weber Waller
Corporate Governance and Competition Policy
Spencer Weber Waller
Abstract
Corporate governance law addresses the misaligned incentives between officers and directors of publicly-owned companies and their shareholders, and how this can lead to the destruction of shareholder value. Antitrust law governs the interaction between corporations and other economic actors in the marketplace and prohibits and penalizes anticompetitive agreements, unilateral conduct which unreasonably injures competition, and mergers and acquisitions which may substantially lessen competition.
This article explores the puzzling lack of meaningful interaction between these two fields of law which govern the internal and external operations of key economic players in our …