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Economic & Policy Analysis

AAI Commentary on Audit Industry Inquiries

April 15, 2011 Bernard Ascher
International , Monopolies , Unilateral Conduct , Vertical Restraints

AAI Senior Research Fellow Bernard Ascher provides an update on the Big 4 audit firms who are are back in the news in London and  Brussels where inquiries are questioning the role of the audit industry during  the financial crisis of 2008.

Audit Firms

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Amicus Briefs

AAI Asks Second Circuit for Clear Thinking When Pharmaceutical Markets Are Monopolized by Patent Fraud (Regeneron v. Novartis)

June 20, 2022 | Randy Stutz
Exclusionary Conduct , Intellectual Property , Monopolies , Health & Pharmaceuticals
Podcasts

The High Costs of Growing Corn: How Growers are Squeezed by High Input Prices That Are Set by the Fertilizer Oligopoly

May 24, 2022 | Diana L. Moss, Dee Vaughan, Dr. Joe Outlaw
Food & Agriculture , Collusion , International
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AAI Paper Calls for Careful Analysis of Apple’s Security Justifications for App Store Restrictions to Avoid False Negatives

May 24, 2022 | Randy Stutz
Competition Policy , Exclusionary Conduct , Technology , Section 2 of the Sherman Act , Monopolies
Economic & Policy Analysis

AAI Highlights New Multidisciplinary Analysis of Price Maintenance in the U.S., EU, and China

May 10, 2022 | Diana L. Moss, Riley T. Krotz, Gregory T. Gundlach
Competition Policy , RPM , Vertical Restraints , Section 1 of the Sherman Act

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