Robert H. Gertner
Robert H. Gertner is the Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he also serves as the John Edwardson Faculty Director of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation.
Gertner has been on the Chicago Booth faculty since 1986. He has held visiting positions at CEPREMAP in Paris, Cornell Law School, The University of Chicago Law School, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant, an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics and was a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a trustee of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, a national organization devoted to large-scale social research in public interest
Gertner received a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University in 1981 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.
Robert H. Gertner
Oct 26, 2009
The stated purpose of the DOJ/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines is to “reduce the uncertainty associated with enforcement of the antitrust laws.” The Guidelines have had limited success in achieving this goal. They generally succeed in two important dimensions and fail in one. First, the Guidelines lay out a five step analysis consisting of market definition, ... Robert Gertner on Revising the Guidelines
