Emily Blackburn co-authored "The Credibility Revolution Meets Research Design: Considerations for Antitrust Practitioners," published in The Antitrust Bulletin (Sep. 2026), with Dr. Brett Wendling of the Federal Trade Commission. Using the FTC's challenge of the Kroger/Albertsons merger as a case study, the article explores whether cross-sectional regressions of price on market concentration can produce biased results when they fail to control for local supply and demand conditions and provides practical advice for antitrust practitioners evaluating economic evidence about the competitive effects of mergers

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