December 8, 2014

Letter, Urging FTC Advise FCC Employ Case-by-Case Rules in Regulating Net Neutrality, FTC

Geoffrey A. Manne

"We are professors and scholars of law, business, economics, and public policy with expertise in communications, competition, innovation, industrial organization and related fields..."

Telecommunications

August 16, 2014

Microsoft’s Android Anathema

Geoffrey A. Manne

Microsoft wants you to believe that Google’s business practices stifle competition and harm consumers. Again. The latest volley in its tiresome and ironic campaign to bludgeon Google with the same regulatory…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2014

The Law and Economics of Data and Privacy in Antitrust Analysis

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

While several scholars and policymakers have proposed that threats to privacy and competition from concentration of data be incorporated into antitrust analysis, no one has yet articulated a coherent theory as to how degrading privacy or aggregating data can be anticompetitive...

Data Security & Privacy

January 1, 2014

Comments, Communications Act Rewrite, House Energy & Commerce Committee

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"Twenty years ago, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the need to refocus communications competition policy on promoting competition in an era of convergence, focusing on effects rather than formalism..."

Telecommunications

January 1, 2014

Comments, Third Communications Act Update White Paper

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka & Ben Sperry & Tom Struble

"Twenty years ago, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the need to refocus communications competition policy on promoting competition in an era of convergence, focusing on effects rather than formalism..."

Telecommunications

November 13, 2013

Spectrum Policy for the Wired Network, Aspen Institute Roundtable

Geoffrey A. Manne

Increasingly, the wired and wireless networks are converging in architecture and function. For example, the further fiber moves towards the customer, the more wireless capabilities are available in cellular networks.

Telecommunications

January 1, 2013

The Market Realities that Undermined the FTC's Antitrust Case Against Google

Geoffrey A. Manne & William Rinehart

The FTC completed its antitrust investigation of Google early this year and, finding no evidence of antitrust violations, decided not to bring an enforcement action against the company.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 2, 2011

First Microsoft, Now Google: Does the Government Have it in for Consumers?

Geoffrey A. Manne & Joshua Wright

Ten years ago this week, an appeals court upheld Microsoft's conviction for monopolizing the PC operating system market. The decision became a key legal precedent for U.S. antitrust enforcement.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 1, 2011

Competition Policy and Patent Law Under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation (Book)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Joshua Wright

The regulation of innovation and the optimal design of legal institutions in an environment of uncertainty are two of the most important policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovation is critical to economic growth.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection