August 10, 2018

Senator Warner’s proposals could harm entrepreneurs and consumers

Kristian Stout

Last week, I objected to Senator Warner relying on the flawed AOL/Time Warner merger conditions as a template for tech regulatory policy, but there is a much deeper problem contained in his proposals.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 27, 2018

How blockchain will upend competition law

Thibault Schrepel

PARIS — Not a day goes by without some discussion of Bitcoin — and, by extension, blockchain. Soon, not a day will pass without blockchain being discussed in competition law…

Financial Regulation

July 18, 2018

Schrepel - The European Commission Is Undermining Innovation

Thibault Schrepel

This article introduces an empirical study conducted over the period 2004 to 2018 (Android included) on all the fines imposed by the European Commission on the basis of Article 102 TFEU. We show that the European Commission’s decisions may have the effect of slowing down R&D for numerous sanctioned companies.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 1, 2018

Amazon and the Unwisdom of the Populist Crowd

Kristian Stout

There are some who view a host of claimed negative social ills allegedly related to the large size of firms like Amazon as an occasion to call for the company’s break…

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

December 1, 2016

Competition Committee Hearing on Big Data and Competition (Paris, France)

Geoffrey A. Manne

The difference between privacy protection and antitrust law -Privacy is fundamentally a consumer protection or tort issue. - In theory, antitrust law can deal with privacy as a non-price factor of hard to measure against/combine competition, but this is an uneasy fit — with other effects...

Data Security & Privacy

October 13, 2016

A Critical Assessment of the Latest Charge of Google’s Anticompetitive Bias

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Ben Sperry

Late last year, Tim Wu of Columbia Law School (and now the White House Office of Management and Budget), Michael Luca of Harvard Business School (and a consultant for Yelp), and a group of Yelp data scientists released a study claiming that Google has been purposefully degrading search results from its more-specialized competitors in the area of local search.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 21, 2016

Everything is amazing — and no one at the European Commission is happy

Geoffrey A. Manne

Since the European Commission (EC) announced its first inquiry into Google’s business practices in 2010, the company has been the subject of lengthy investigations by courts and competition agencies around…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 20, 2016

O competition, we stand on guard for thee

Geoffrey A. Manne

Today’s Canadian Competition Bureau (CCB) Google decision marks yet another regulator joining the chorus of competition agencies around the world that have already dismissed similar complaints relating to Google’s Search…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection