November 21, 2017

Geoffrey Manne on Antitrust Case Against AT&T in The Wall Street Journal

Geoffrey A. Manne

ICLE Executive Director Geoffrey Manne shares his take on the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner in The Wall Street Journal.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 6, 2017

IMG-Learfield: An antitrust reality check on two-sided market mergers

Eric Fruits & Geoffrey A. Manne

Yesterday Learfield and IMG College inked their recently announced merger. Since the negotiations were made public several weeks ago, the deal has garnered some wild speculation and potentially negative attention. Now that the merger has been announced,…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 22, 2017

antitrust laws are not some meta-legislation authorizing whatever activists want

Geoffrey A. Manne

In a recent post at the (appallingly misnamed) ProMarket blog (the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business — George Stigler is rolling…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 15, 2017

Competition Law in a Global Context: Analysing the Trans-Atlantic Divide

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A growing number of companies operate on a global scale attracting the scrutiny of multiple competition law authorities around the world. As some of the largest and most developed antitrust…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 29, 2017

ABA Teleconference: Teleconference on Newspaper Antitrust Immunity

Geoffrey A. Manne

Summary David Chavern (News Media Alliance, whose members include NYT, WSJ, Tronc (Chicago Tribune, LA Times)), in a July 9, 2017 Wall Street Journal op-ed and subsequent press release, called…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 10, 2017

The Washington Post editorial board understands online competition better than the European Commission does

Geoffrey A. Manne

Last week the editorial board of the Washington Post penned an excellent editorial responding to the European Commission’s announcement of its decision in its Google Shopping investigation. Here’s the key…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 30, 2017

A few thoughts on the European Commission decision against Google

Nicolas Petit

Regardless of the merits and soundness (or lack thereof) of this week’s European Commission Decision in the Google Shopping case — one cannot assess this until we have the text…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 9, 2017

Assessment of Procompetitive Effects of Organizational Restructuring in Ag-Biotech

Geoffrey A. Manne & Allen Gibby

The agriculture sector has seen significant technological innovation and organizational change over the last two decades, leading to increases in both farm productivity and profitability.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 7, 2017

Video: Geoffrey Manne Joins Panel at CCIA on Internet Platforms And Competition Policy

Geoffrey A. Manne

Summary As the internet economy matures, antitrust regulators around the world have increasingly turned their sights on internet companies.  However, the dynamic nature of online competition — with low barriers…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection