Jonathan Baker
Professor of Law
Office: Room 392
Phone: 202-274-4315
E-mail: jbaker@wcl.american.edu
Jonathan B. Baker is Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, where he teaches courses primarily in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation. From 1995 to 1998, Professor Baker served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Previously, he worked as a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, an Attorney Advisor to the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and an antitrust lawyer in private practice. He is the co-author of an antitrust casebook, a past Editorial Chair of Antitrust Law Journal, and a past member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. Professor Baker has published widely in the fields of antitrust law and policy and industrial organization economics. In 2004 he received American University’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Accomplishments, and in 1998 he received the Federal Trade Commission’s Award for Distinguished Service. He has a J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Antitrust
- Economic Regulation
- Law and Economics
Degrees & Universities
- Ph.D., Stanford University 1986
- J.D., Harvard Law School 1982
- A.B., Harvard University 1977
Selected Publications
- Jonathan B. Baker & Carl Shapiro, Reinvigorating Horizontal Merger Enforcement, (Oct. 2007, Oxford U. Press, forthcoming).
- Jonathan B. Baker, The Case for Antitrust Enforcement, 17 J. Econ. Persps. 27 (Fall 2003). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Mavericks, Mergers, and Exclusion: Proving Coordinated Competitive Effects Under the Antitrust Laws, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 135 (Apr. 2002).
- Jonathan B. Baker & Daniel Rubinfeld, Empirical Methods in Antitrust Litigation: Review and Critique, 1 Am L. & Econ. Rev. 386 (1999). SSRN Link
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Books
- Andrew I. Gavil, William E. Kovacic & Jonathan B. Baker, Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (Thomson West, Am. Casebook Series 2002 (2d. ed. 2008, forthcoming)).
Other Publications
- Jonathan B. Baker & Robert Pitofsky, A Turning Point in Merger Enforcement: Federal Trade Commission v. Staples, Antitrust Stories (Daniel A. Crane & Eleanor M. Fox, eds., forthcoming). SSRN Link
- Jonathan Baker & Timothy F. Bresnahan, Economic Evidence in Antitrust: Defining Markets and Measuring Market Power, Handbook of Antitrust Economics (Paolo Buccirossi, ed., forthcoming 2008). SSRN Link
- Jonathan Baker, Beyond Schumpeter Vs. Arrrow: How Antitrust Fosters Innovation, 74 Antitrust L.J. 575 (2007). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Market Definition: An Analytical Overview, 74 Antitrust L.J. 129 (2007). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Competition Policy as a Political Bargain, 73 Antitrust L.J. 483 (2006). SSRN Link
- Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, Jonathan B. Baker, Suzanne Gleason & Daniel S. Hosken, Empirical Methods in Merger Analysis: Econometric Analysis of Pricing in FTC v. Staples, 13 Intl. J. Econ. Bus. 265 (2006).
- Jonathan B. Baker, My Summer Vacation at the European Commission, Antitrust Source (Sept. 2005).
- Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, Jonathan B. Baker, Suzanne Gleason & Daniel S. Hosken, Econometric Methods in Staples, Princeton L. & Pub. Affairs Paper No. 04-007 (Apr. 9, 2004). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Efficiencies and High Concentration: Heinz Proposes to Acquire Beech-Nut, in The Antitrust Revolution 150, 150-69 (John E. Kwoka, Jr. & Lawrence J. White, eds., 4th ed., 2004).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Why Did the Antitrust Agencies Embrace Unilateral Effects?, 12 Geo. Mason U. L. Rev. 31 (Fall 2003).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Economist's Roundtable, 17 Antitrust 8 (Spring 2003).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Responding to Developments in Economics and the Courts: Entry in the Merger Guidelines, 71 Antitrust L.J. 189 (2003).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Competitive Price Discrimination: The Exercise of Market Power Without Anticompetitive Effects (Comment on Klein and Wiley), 70 Antitrust L.J. 643 (2003). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Horizontal Merger Analysis Grows Up: A Review of Chapter 5 of Richard Posner's "Antitrust Law" (2d ed. 2001), Antitrust Source (Jan. 2002).
- Jonathan B. Baker, A Preface to Post-Chicago Antitrust, in Post Chicago Developments in Antitrust Analysis 60 (Roger van der Bergh, Roberto Pardolesi & Antonio Cucinotta, eds., 2002). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Can Antitrust Keep Up? Competition Policy in High-Tech Markets, Brookings Rev. 16 (Winter 2001).
- Jonathan B. Baker & Andrew I. Gavil, Ill-Gotten Gains: Toothless Settlement Lets Microsoft Keep Rewards of Monopolization, Leg. Times 51 (Nov. 12, 2001).
- Jonathan B. Baker, New Horizons in Cartel Detection, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 824 (Oct./Dec. 2001).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Should Concentration be Dropped from the Merger Guidelines?, ABA Antitrust Section Task Force Rep. 339 (July 2001) (reprinted in 33 U. W.L.A. L. Rev. 3 (2001) with Steven C. Salop).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Stepping Out in an Old Brown Shoe: In Qualified Praise of Submarkets, 68 Antitrust L.J. 203 (2000).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Policy Watch: Developments in Antitrust Economics, 13 J. Econ. Persps. 181 (Winter 1999). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Law Leans Toward Joel Klein, Leg. Times 40 (Oct. 25, 1999).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Promoting Innovation Competition Through the Aspen/Kodak Rule, 7 Geo. Mason U. L. Rev. 495 (Spring 1999). SSRN Link
- Jonathan B. Baker, Econometric Analysis in FTC v. Staples, 18 J. Pub. Policy & Mktg. 11 (Spring 1999).
- Jonathan B. Baker & John C. Hilke, From Open Access to Convergence Mergers: An Antitrust Perspective on the Transition to Electricity Competition, 3 Power 3 (Winter 1998).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore & Signe-Mary McKernan, Identifying the Firm-Specific Cost Pass-Through Rate, Working Paper No. 217, Fed. Trade Commn. (Jan. 1998).
- Jonathan B. Baker, The Problem with Baker Hughes and Syufy: On the Role of Entry in Merger Analysis, 65 Antitrust L.J. 353 (Winter 1997).
- Jonathan B. Baker, "Continuous" Regulatory Reform at the Federal Trade Commission, 49 Admin L. Rev. 859 (Fall 1997).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Contemporary Empirical Merger Analysis, 5 Geo. Mason U. L. Rev. 347 (Spring 1997).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Product Differentiation Through Space and Time: Some Antitrust Policy Issues, 42 Antitrust Bull. 177 (Spring 1997).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Unilateral Competitive Effects Theories in Merger Analysis, 11:2 Antitrust 21 (Spring 1997).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Identifying Horizontal Price Fixing in the Electronic Marketplace, 65 Antitrust L.J. 41 (Fall 1996).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Vertical Restraints with Horizontal Consequences: Competitive Effects of "Most-Favored-Customer" Clauses, 64 Antitrust L.J. 517 (Spring 1996).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Fringe Firms and Incentives to Innovate, 63 Antitrust L.J. 621 (Winter 1995).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Predatory Pricing After Brooke Group: An Economic Perspective, 62 Antitrust L.J. 585 (Spring 1994) (reprinted in An Antitrust Anthology, Andrew Gavil, ed., (1996)).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Two Sherman Act Section I Dilemmas: Parrallel Pricing, the Oligopoly Problem, and Contemporary Economic Theory, 38 Antitrust Bull. 143 (Spring 1993).
- Jonathan B. Baker & Timothy F. Bresnahan, Empirical Methods of Identifying and Measuring Market Power, 61 Antitrust L.J. 3 (Summer 1992).
- Janusz A. Ordover & Jonathan B. Baker, Entry Analysis Under the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 61 Antitrust L.J. 139 (Summer 1992).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Per Se Rules in the Antitrust Analysis of Horizontal Restraints, 36 Antitrust Bull. 733 (Winter 1991).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Book Review: Economics and Anitrust Policy, 34 Antitrust Bull. 919 (Winter 1989).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Identifying Cartel Policing Under Uncertainty: The U.S. Steel Industry 1933-1939, 32:2, pt.2 J. L. & Econ. S47 (Oct. 1989).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Recent Developments in Economics that Challenge Chicago School Views, 58 Antitrust L.J. 645 (1989).
- Jonathan B. Baker, The Antitrust Analysis of Hospital Mergers and the Transformation of the Hospital Industry, 51:2 L. & Contemp. Probs. 93 (Spring 1988).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Vertical Restraints Among Hospitals, Physicians, and Health Insurers that Raise Rivals' Costs, 14 Am. J.L. & Med. 385 (1988).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Private Information and the Deterrent Effect of Antitrust Damage Remedies, 4 J. L. Econ. & Org. 385 (1988).
- Jonathan B. Baker & Timothy F. Bresnahan, Estimating the Residual Demand Curve Facing a Single Firm, 6 Intl. J. Indus. Org. 283 (1988) (reprinted in Antitrust and Competition Policy, Andrew N. Kleit, ed., 2005).
- Jonathan B. Baker & Timothy F. Bresnahan, The Gains from Merger or Collusion in Product Differentiated Industries, 33 J. Indus. Econ. 427 (1985) (reprinted in "Oligopoly, Competition and Welfare," P. Geroski, L. Philips & A. Ulph, eds., 1985).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Has the Contract Clause Counter-Revolution Halted? Rhetoric, Rights and Markets in Constitutional Analysis, 12 Hastings Const. L.Q. 71 (Fall 1984).
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Selected Presentations
- Jonathan B. Baker, Presentation, Comments On Applying the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (Mar. 2004).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Panelist, Economists and Lawyers' Roundtable (DOJ/FTC Merger Workshop, Feb. 19, 2004).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Panelist, Panel on Coordinated Effects (DOJ/FTC Merger Workshop, Feb. 18, 2004).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Roundtable Discussion, Roundtable with Former Diretors of the FTC Bureau of Economics (Sept. 4, 2003).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Panelist, Most Favored Nations Clauses (DOJ/FTC Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy, May 7, 2003).
- Jonathan B. Baker, On-Line Chat, US v. Microsoft Corporation (Feb. 26, 2001) (C-Span On-Line Chat, Town Hall Meeting).
- Jonathan B. Baker, Symposium, The Microsoft Verdict: The Next Phase (American Prospect Online, Apr. 6, 2000).