Considers (83) H.R. 2237.

Considers. S. 996, to amend the Sherman Act to limit the employment of antitrust violators by any company convicted of the same violation. S. 2252, to amend the Sherman Act to increase the maximum fine assessable and to require prison sentences for repeat offenders of antitrust violations. S. 2253, to amend the Sherman Act to provide for heavier corporate fines for price fixing and market allocation violations. S. 2254, to amend the Clayton Act to impose sanctions on corporate officers who engage in anticompetitive activities leading to antitrust violations. S. 2255, to require an affidavit of noncollusion from Government contract bidders who in the previous two years have bid prices identical to their competitors.

Criminal cartel activity, such as competitors conspiring to set prices, can harm consumers and the U.S. economy through lack of competition and overcharges. The Dept. of Justice (DoJ) leniency program offers the possibility that the first individual or co. that self-reports cartel activity will avoid criminal conviction and penalties. The Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act (ACPERA) encourages such reporting. This report addresses: (1) the extent that ACPERA affected DoJ¿s criminal cartel enforcement; (2) the ways ACPERA has affected private civil actions; and (3) key stakeholder perspectives on rewards and anti-retaliatory protection for whistleblowers reporting antitrust violations. Illus. This is a print on demand report.

Industrial consolidation, digital platforms, and changing political views have spurred debate about the interplay between public and private power in the United States and have created a bipartisan appetite for potential antitrust reform that would mark the most profound shift in US competition policy in the past half-century. While neo-Brandeisians call for a reawakening of antitrust in the form of a return to structuralism and a concomitant rejection of economic analysis founded on competitive effects, proponents of the status quo look on this state of affairs with alarm. Scrutinizing the latest evidence, Alan J. Devlin finds a middle ground. US antitrust laws warrant revision, he argues, but with far more nuance than current debates suggest. He offers a new vision of antitrust reform, achieved by refining our enforcement policies and jettisoning an unwarranted obsession with minimizing errors of economic analysis.