Brian Albrecht Quoted in Politico on Google Ad Tech Remedies
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POLITICO quoted Brian Albrecht, ICLE Chief Economist, in a piece examining a federal judge’s decision to reject the Justice Department’s proposed breakup of Google’s advertising-technology business. Courts are generally reluctant to impose structural remedies in complex, interconnected markets and are more likely to adopt behavioral remedies when the government prevails. Read the full piece here.
“Structural remedies just are not something that courts are very willing to do, especially in these complicated markets where they’re so intertwined,” said Brian Albrecht, chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics. “The more technocratic behavioral remedies … are where we expect these cases to go if the government wins.”