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Unpublished Paper
Lessons For Competition Law From the Economic Crisis: Can "Too Big To Fail" Trigger Useful Antitrust Intervention?
ExpressO (2010)
  • Jesse W. Markham, University of San Francisco
Abstract
This article examines whether, and the extent to which, antitrust law could contribute to a broader regulatory effort to control the too-big-to-fail problem. The article begins by exploring the nature of the problem. Against this backdrop, antitrust policy and rules are considered to evaluate whether antitrust might play a meaningful role. The article concludes that antitrust law, if vigorously enforced with attention paid to the need to avoid too-big-to-fail problems can be a useful public policy tool to address the problem, although it can come nowhere near solving it or preventing recurrences of recent systemic failures.
Keywords
  • To-Big-To-Fail,
  • Antitrust
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 24, 2010
Citation Information
Jesse W. Markham. "Lessons For Competition Law From the Economic Crisis: Can "Too Big To Fail" Trigger Useful Antitrust Intervention?" ExpressO (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jesse_markham/2/