Working with a roster of more than fifty academic affiliates and research centers from around the globe, ICLE develops and disseminates academic output to build the intellectual foundation for rigorous, economically-grounded policy.

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June 19, 2018

Innovation Competition, Unilateral Effects and Merger Control Policy

Nicolas Petit
This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure).
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
June 14, 2018

For LabMD, the Devil is in the Not-So-Well Specified Details

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz & Kristian Stout
The Eleventh Circuit’s LabMD opinion came out last week and has been something of a rorschach test for those of us who study consumer protection law. Neil Chilson found the result to be a disturbing sign of slippage in Congress’s command that the FTC refrain from basing enforcement on “public policy.” Berin Szóka, on the other hand, saw the ruling as a long-awaited rebuke against the FTC’s expansive notion of its “unfairness” authority.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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Gus Hurwitz

Director of Law & Economics Programs

Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is an assistant professor of law and co-director of the Space, Cyber, and Telecom Law program at the University of Nebraska College of Law. His work builds on his background in law, technology, and economics to consider the interface between law and technology and the role of regulation in high-tech industries. His work has been used by administrative agencies, cited in judicial opinions, and referenced by federal legislators, and he has addressed both American and other governmental and regulatory agencies.

Prior to law school, he held undergraduate and graduate research positions at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab. During this time his work was recognized by organizations such as the Federal Laboratory Consortium, R&D Magazine, Los Alamos National Lab, IEEE & ACM, and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California.

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20 Jun

The Anti-Economics Trend in Technology Regulation: Lessons for Economists and Legal Scholars

UPCOMING EVENT: During a half-day seminar, scholars and policy experts will discuss how the backlash against the use of economics in policymaking is increasing. A keynote address and two mixed panels of academics and policy analysts will discuss how this anti-economics trend affects the commercialization of technology and what, if anything, academics and other scholars can do about it.

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