April 2, 2019

Amazon is not essential

Kristian Stout

The following is adapted from a recent ICLE Issue Brief on the flawed essential facilities arguments undergirding the EU competition investigations into Amazon’s marketplace that Kristian Stout wrote with Geoffrey Manne.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2019

This Too Shall Pass: Unassailable Monopolies That Were, in Hindsight, Eminently Assailable

Geoffrey A. Manne & Alec Stapp

Elizabeth Warren wants to break up the tech giants — Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple — claiming they have too much power and represent a danger to our democracy. As part of our response to her proposal, we shared a couple of headlines from 2007 claiming that MySpace had an unassailable monopoly in the social media market.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 12, 2019

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Alec Stapp

Near the end of her new proposal to break up Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple, Senator Warren asks, “So what would the Internet look like after all these reforms?” To Warren, our most dynamic and innovative companies constitute a problem that needs solving.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 21, 2018

The Amazon investigation and Europe’s “Big Tech” Crusade

Dirk Auer

The dust has barely settled on the European Commission’s record-breaking €4.3 Billion Google Android fine, but already the European Commission is gearing up for its next high-profile case.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Amazon-Whole Foods symposium wrap-up

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium — Is Amazon’s Appetite Bottomless? The Whole Foods Merger After One Year — that looked at the concerns surrounding the closing of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, and how those concerns had played out over the last year.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

The Amazon-Whole Foods merger: Natural and organic competition in the evolving grocery industry [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

Geoffrey A. Manne is the President & Founder at the International Center for Law & Economics. Kristian Stout is the Associate Director of Innovation Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Whole Foods? Seriously? Why Are We Talking About Whole Foods? [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Chris Sagers

Christopher L. Sagers is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Are the antitrust laws any defense to the real dangers of mega-mergers and big technology power aggregation? [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Jarod Bona & Steven Levitsky

Jarod M. Bona is the CEO of and Attorney at BonaLaw PC as well as a writer at The Antitrust Attorney Blog.  Steven Levitsky is also an Attorney at BonaLaw PC and a writer at  The Antitrust Attorney Blog.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

The Amazon / Whole Foods overreaction: Antitrust populism exposed [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Dirk Auer

Dirk Auer is a Research Fellow at the Liege Competition and Innovation Institute.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection