May 26, 2016

Congressional testimony on legislative reform proposals for the FTC

Geoffrey A. Manne

Earlier this week I testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade regarding several proposed FTC reform bills. You can find my written testimony here. That testimony…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 10, 2016

Pushing Ad Networks Out of Business: Yershov v. Gannett and the War Against Online Platforms

Kristian Stout

The lifecycle of a law is a curious one; born to fanfare, a great solution to a great problem, but ultimately doomed to age badly as lawyers seek to shoehorn…

Innovation & The New Economy

April 1, 2014

The Law and Economics of Data and Privacy in Antitrust Analysis

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

While several scholars and policymakers have proposed that threats to privacy and competition from concentration of data be incorporated into antitrust analysis, no one has yet articulated a coherent theory as to how degrading privacy or aggregating data can be anticompetitive...

Data Security & Privacy

November 20, 2013

Senator Markey’s Do Not Track Kids Act of 2013 Raises the Question: What’s the Point of COPPA?

Ben Sperry

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) continues to be a hot button issue for many online businesses and privacy advocates. On November 14, Senator Markey, along with Senator Kirk…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 11, 2013

Google: Great Deal or Greatest Deal?

Ben Sperry

Critics of Google have argued that users overvalue Google’s services in relation to the data they give away.  One breath-taking headline asked Who Would Pay $5,000 to Use Google?, suggesting that…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 26, 2012

The market realities that undermine the antitrust case against Google

Geoffrey A. Manne

As the Google antitrust discussion heats up on its way toward some culmination at the FTC, I thought it would be helpful to address some of the major issues raised…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 22, 2012

New Technology in Europe

Paul Rubin

Last week the New York Times ran an article, “Building the Next Facebook a Tough Task in Europe“, by Eric Pfanner, discussing the lack of major high tech innovation in…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 26, 2012

“Protecting” Consumers from the Truth About the Cost of Government

Thomas Lambert

A new rule kicks in today requiring airlines to include all taxes and mandatory fees in their advertised fares.  The rule, part of a broader “passengers’ bill of rights”-type regulation…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 12, 2012

Fed should stay out of Google/Twitter social search spat

Geoffrey A. Manne

As has become customary with just about every new product announcement by Google these days, the company’s introduction on Tuesday of its new “Search, plus Your World” (SPYW) program, which…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection