April 24, 2018

The Anti-Economics Trend in Technology Regulation: Lessons for Economists and Legal Scholars

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During a half-day seminar, scholars and policy experts will discuss how the backlash against the use of economics in policymaking is increasing. A keynote address and two mixed panels of academics and policy analysts will discuss how this anti-economics trend affects the commercialization of technology and what, if anything, academics and other scholars can do about it.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
February 7, 2018

Innovation Competition, Unilateral Effects and Merger Control Policy

Nicolas Petit
This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure).
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
January 25, 2018

Amicus Brief, Ohio v. American Express

Geoffrey A. Manne & Babette Boliek & James Cooper & Richard Epstein & Thomas Hazlett & Gus Hurwitz & Jonathan Klick & Thomas Lambert & Tad Lipsky & David Teece & Joshua Wright & Christopher Yoo
Summary While the three-step burden-shifting framework for evaluating antitrust cases under the rule of reason is conceptually well-accepted and understood, case law remains unclear regarding what suffices to satisfy each…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection