Antitrust Settlements
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Description
Antitrust litigation has been experiencing a growth spurt in the past several decades as the result of expanding public enforcement worldwide, active private enforcement in the United States, and initial forays into private enforcement in other areas of the world. Given the large costs to the parties flowing from antitrust trials, it is not surprising that a vast majority of both private and public enforcement actions are resolved through settlement. This essay sketches out the conceptual framework underlying the settlement-trial decision. It also describes some of the empirical evidence on the settlement of both public and private antitrust cases and in the process offers commentary on a number of important policy issues.
Source Publication
The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics
Source Editors/Authors
Roger D. Blair, D. Daniel Sokol
Publication Date
2015
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Rubinfeld, Daniel L., "Antitrust Settlements" (2015). Faculty Chapters. 1820.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1820
