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- Title
Antitrust enforcement by state attorneys general: institutional, legal and political considerations.
- Authors
Dove, John A.
- Abstract
Since deregulation in 1980, there has been a major shift in antitrust enforcement to the states, specifically to state attorneys general (AGs). For advocates of deregulation, this move has had important unintended consequences. Specifically, it has allowed antitrust litigation to become hitched to the political incentives of AGs. Analysis of a panel dataset of all state antitrust actions between 1990 and 2008 suggests that antitrust enforcement by state attorneys general appears to follow electoral cycles, which is especially pronounced depending on specific institutional constraints that exist between the states.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ANTITRUST law; UNITED States attorneys general -- States; DEREGULATION; CORPORATION law; STATE laws; STATE government personnel; STATE governments
- Publication
Business & Politics, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2, p291
- ISSN
1469-3569
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bap-2013-0032