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Working Papers

AAI Working Paper 08-03: The Audit Industry: World’s Weakest Oligopoly?

September 18, 2008 Bernard Ascher
Competition Policy , Banking & Finance

AAI Research Fellow Bernard Ascher’s detailed analysis of an industry that is “too big to fail.”

Read the Working Paper here.

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Amicus Briefs

AAI Asks Ninth Circuit to Deny Google’s Appeal of Class Certification in the Google Play Litigation and to Reject Any Special “Passthrough” Showing at Class Certification Stage

August 10, 2023
Technology , Competition Policy , Private Enforcement
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The Cloud Technology Market: Storm of Innovation or Rainy Days for Competition?

July 17, 2023 | Private: Diana L. Moss, Kathleen W. Bradish
Technology , FTC , DOJ , Mergers , Exclusionary Conduct , Competition Policy
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New Report by AAI, UC Berkeley and Equitable Growth Calls Attention to Private Equity’s Voracious Acquisition of Physician Practices

July 10, 2023
Private Equity , Mergers , Competition Policy , Health & Pharmaceuticals
Public Comments and Testimony

AAI Files Comments with FTC on Business Practices of Cloud Computing Providers

June 21, 2023 | Private: Diana L. Moss
Technology , FTC , DOJ , Mergers , Exclusionary Conduct , Competition Policy

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