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Crackdown on tacit collusion at lower concentration levels may need more antitrust tools, US DOJ chief economist says

US antitrust enforcers need to be wary of tacit collusion emerging at lower levels of concentration, which is going to be very hard to address through policy and more enforcement tools may be needed, the Department of Justice’s chief antitrust economist said.
Susan Athey, who leads the DOJ’s antitrust division’s

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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