March 31, 2017

Innovation-driven market structure in the ag-biotech industry [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Geoffrey A. Manne

Geoffrey A. Manne is Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics Dynamic versus static competition Ever since David Teece and coauthors began writing about antitrust and innovation in high-tech…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 31, 2017

Antitrust review of ag-biotech mergers: Appropriability versus cannibalization [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Nicolas Petit

Nicolas Petit is Professor of Law at the University of Liege (Belgium) and Research Professor at the University of South Australia (UniSA) This symposium offers a good opportunity to look again…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 31, 2017

Innovation trends in agriculture and their implications for M & A analysis [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Michael Sykuta

Michael Sykuta is Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Director, Contracting Organizations Research Institute at the University of Missouri. The US agriculture sector has been experiencing consolidation at all levels…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 30, 2017

Conglomerate effects and the incentive to deal reasonably with other providers of complementary products [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Allen Gibby

Allen Gibby is a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics Modern agriculture companies like Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, develop cutting-edge seeds containing genetic traits that make…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 30, 2017

Agricultural and Biotech Mergers: Implications for Antitrust Law and Economics in Innovative Industries

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Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium discussing three proposed agricultural/biotech industry mergers awaiting judgment by antitrust authorities around the globe.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 29, 2017

Announcement: TOTM blog symposium on agricultural and biotech mergers

Geoffrey A. Manne

Truth on the Market is pleased to announce its next blog symposium: Agricultural and Biotech Mergers: Implications for Antitrust Law and Economics in Innovative Industries March 30 & 31, 2017…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 21, 2017

Significant Impediment To Industry Innovation: A novel theory of harm in EU merger policy?

Nicolas Petit

Thanks to Truth on the Market for the opportunity to guest blog, and to ICLE for inviting me to join as a Senior Scholar! I’m honoured to be involved with…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 6, 2017

Significant Impediment to Industry Innovation:A NovelTheory of Harm in EU Merger Control?

Nicolas Petit

Summary A novel theory of harm is crystalising in European Union (“EU”) merger control. Under this theory, the EU Commission (“Commission”) can intervene in mergers that it considers generally reduce…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 10, 2016

Pushing Ad Networks Out of Business: Yershov v. Gannett and the War Against Online Platforms

Kristian Stout

The lifecycle of a law is a curious one; born to fanfare, a great solution to a great problem, but ultimately doomed to age badly as lawyers seek to shoehorn…

Innovation & The New Economy