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July 28, 2022

A Day in the Fair New World of Perfectly Open Platforms

[The following is part of a digital symposium by Truth on the Market guests and authors on Antitrust’s Uncertain Future: Visions of Competition in the New Regulatory Landscape. Information on…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 29, 2022

What Have the Intermediaries Ever Done for Us?

Dirk Auer & Lazar Radic

Intermediaries emerge when it would otherwise be too difficult (or too costly) for groups of users to meet and interact. There is thus no guarantee that government-mandated disintermediation — such as that contemplated in the European DMA and the U.S. AICOA bill — will generate net benefits in a given case.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 1, 2022

Relevant Market in the Google AdTech Case

Eric Fruits & Geoffrey A. Manne & Lazar Radic

Digital advertising is the economic backbone of much of the Internet. But complaints have recently emerged from a number of quarters alleging the digital advertising market is monopolized by its largest participant: Google.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 24, 2022

ICLE Response to NTIA Request for Comments on Mobile App Ecosystem

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer & Lazar Radic

Executive Summary Our response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (“NTIA”) request for comments (“RFC”) is broken into two parts. The first part raises concerns regarding what we see…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 22, 2022

ICLE Comments on FTC/DOJ Merger Enforcement RFI

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer & Brian Albrecht & Eric Fruits & Lazar Radic

The FTC and DOJ's RFI on whether and how to update the antitrust agencies’ merger-enforcement guidelines is based on several faulty premises and appears to presuppose a preferred outcome.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2022

Assessing Less Restrictive Alternatives and Interbrand Competition in Epic v Apple

Geoffrey A. Manne & Lazar Radic & Dirk Auer

The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) filed an amicus brief on behalf of itself and 26 distinguished law & economics scholars with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 25, 2022

Final DMA: Now We Know Where We’re Going, but We Still Don’t Know Why

Lazar Radic

After years of debate and negotiations, European Lawmakers have agreed upon what will most likely be the final iteration of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), following the March 24 final round of “trilogue”…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 3, 2022

Political Philosophy, Competition, and Competition Law: The Road to and from Neoliberalism, Part 2

Lazar Radic

This post is the second in a planned series. The first installment can be found here. In just over a century since its dawn, liberalism had reshaped much of the world…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 11, 2022

Amazon Italy’s Efficiency Offense

Lazar Radic & Geoffrey A. Manne

Early last month, the Italian competition authority issued a record 1.128 billion euro fine against Amazon for abuse of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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