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#342 Can Antitrust Be More Innovation-Centric? An Economic Conversation With Professor Richard Gilbert

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Richard J. Gilbert, Professor, University of California at Berkeley

Innovation is central to long-term economic welfare and deserves greater emphasis in antitrust policy. But can U.S. antitrust law be reshaped to be more innovation-centric? Professor Richard Gilbert joins hosts Anora Wang and Panos Dimitrellos to examine the relationship between competition and innovation, how agencies and courts have recently treated innovation, and practical tools for assessing innovation effects in mergers and conduct cases. Listen to this episode to learn more about navigating the shift toward an innovation-centric antitrust regime, the empirical methods that can reveal innovation harms, and how to balance short-term price effects against long-term technological progress.

Richard J. Gilbert, Professor, University of California at Berkeley

Related Links:

  • https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4844/Innovation-MattersCompetition-Policy-for-the-High
  • https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/antitrust/journal/86/issue-3/antitrust-for-innovation.pdf
  • https://eml.berkeley.edu/~gilbert/Selected%20Papers/Gilbert-Melamed%20final%20pre-publication.pdf

Hosted by:

Panos Dimitrellos, Secretariat Economists LLC and Anora Wang, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP


Posted On September 8, 2025

Posted By Our Curious Amalgam

Posted In Antitrust Economics PRACTICES

Tagged antitrust enforcement agencies competition and innovation dynamic competition analysis high-tech antitrust innovation metrics innovation vs price tradeoffs innovation-centric antitrust market definition for R&D merger review pharmaceutical pipeline suppression Professor Richard Gilbert R&D markets

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