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Aslihan Asil

Yale University

aslihan.asil@yale.edu
Curriculum Vitae

About

I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Financial Economics at Yale University. I received my J.D. from Yale Law School in 2021 and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University in 2017. My research focuses on antitrust, contracts and business organizations.


Research

Can Robinson-Patman Enforcement Be Pro-Consumer?
Job Talk Paper
(formerly titled "When is the Robinson-Patman Act's Prohibition on Differential Pricing Pro-Competitive?")
Misaligned Measures of Control: Private Equity’s Antitrust Loophole
with Thomas G. Wollmann and John M. Barrios
Virginia Law & Business Review (2023)
Can Machines Commit Crimes Under US Antitrust Laws?
with Thomas G. Wollmann
The University of Chicago Business Law Review (2024)
Notification and Enforcement of PE-Backed Consolidation
with Thomas G. Wollmann
Antitrust Chronicle (2024)
When Do Non-Price Vertical Restraints Become Unreasonable?
(submitted for publication--under review)
How Do Commercial Banks Leverage Market Power?
(working paper) with Jakub Kastl
Painful Bargaining: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups
(working paper) with Paulo Ramos, Amanda Starc, and Thomas G. Wollmann

Conferences

America Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting (May 2023)
Misaligned Measures of Control: Private Equity’s Antitrust Loophole
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Oct. 2023)
Misaligned Measures of Control: Private Equity’s Antitrust Loophole
How Do Commercial Banks Leverage Market Power?
Cambridge-USC Virtual Antitrust Workshop (Dec. 2023)
When Do Non-Price Vertical Restraints Become Unreasonable?

Media Coverage

A Q&A with Private Equity Researcher Aslihan Asil (Apr. 2023)
by Ben Remaly in Global Competition Review