October 14, 2018

ICLE Comments, Antitrust law and the consumer welfare standard

Dirk Auer & Gus Hurwitz & Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Kristian Stout

Executive Summary Since the original Pitofsky hearings, much has fundamentally changed in the way the firms do businesses. Yet, despite these rapid and fundamental shifts in technology and behavior, we…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 14, 2018

ICLE Comments, the regulation of consumer data

Dirk Auer & Gus Hurwitz & Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Kristian Stout

Executive Summary These comments were submitted to the FTC as part of its hearings on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.” In these comments, we analyze three overarching…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 14, 2018

ICLE COMMENTS, Whether the U.S. economy has become more concentrated and less competitive

Dirk Auer & Gus Hurwitz & Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Kristian Stout

Executive Summary These comments were submitted to the FTC as part of its hearings on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.” In these comments, we note three high…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 14, 2018

ICLE Comments, The current landscape of competition and consumer protection law and policy

Dirk Auer & Gus Hurwitz & Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Kristian Stout

Executive Summary These comments were submitted to the FTC as part of its hearings on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.” As part of our comments, we note the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 1, 2018

ICLE response to the European commission’s public consultation on “shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation”

Dirk Auer & Geoffrey A. Manne & Aurelien Portuese & Thibault Schrepel

ICLE and a number of its European affiliates have recently responded to the European commission’s public consultation on “shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation.” In our submission, we…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 18, 2018

Comments to the FCC on T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Kristian Stout & Gus Hurwitz

ICLE submitted Comments to the Federal Communications Commission in Opposition to Petitions to Deny the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger. ICLE's comments argue that the petitions to deny fail to provide any compelling reason to adopt a presumption against this merger. To the contrary, there are good reasons to think that this transaction will benefit consumers and the economy.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Amazon-Whole Foods Blog Symposium

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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

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