Recent Publications

Innovation & Information Consultants, Inc.’s work spans numerous industries and employs an assortment of analytical tools. Below is a sampling of some of our more recent work.

Analyzing the Impacts of Antitrust Laws and Enforcement on Small Business

Although a key tenet of U.S. antitrust legislation is to protect competition, not competitors, very little has been written in the literature about the impact of antitrust laws on small businesses, including whether antitrust enforcement activity aids small firms in competing against larger counterparts. In this study for the Small Business Administration, we employed a case study approach to assess small firm reaction to changes in market concentration and antitrust enforcement, using two industries which have had significant antitrust enforcement activity in recent years: retail groceries and timber.   PDF