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Focus Area: merger guidelines

February 18, 2021

tl;dr - The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act

Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act (CALERA), sweeping legislation that, if enacted, would change the antitrust rules not just for Big Tech, but for the whole economy.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
February 1, 2021

Comments to FTC: ANPR Concerning Future Amendments to the HSR Rules

Dirk Auer & Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman
ICLE comments filed Feb. 1, 2021, to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in response to the FTC's Advance Notice of Public Rulemaking concerning future amendments to the premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
January 26, 2021

Ajit Pai Brought the FCC’s Media Ownership Rules into the Modern Age

Geoffrey A. Manne
Pai’s tenure at the FCC was marked by an abiding appreciation for the importance of competition, both as a guiding principle for new regulations and as a touchstone to determine when to challenge existing ones. Perhaps his greatest contribution to bringing competition to the forefront of the FCC’s mandate came in his work on media modernization.
Telecommunications
December 11, 2020

Facebook and the Pros and Cons of Ex Post Merger Reviews

Dirk Auer
The Federal Trade Commission and 46 state attorneys general (along with the District of Columbia and the Territory of Guam) filed their long-awaited complaints against Facebook Dec. 9. The crux of the arguments in…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
February 24, 2020

Comments of ICLE on the Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (Matter Number P810034)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout
Although it is doubtless correct that the 1984 Nonhorizontal Merger Guidelines require updates in light of the last three decades of legal and economic developments, it is by no means…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
March 29, 2019

Telecom regulators: Don’t get rolled by Rewheel

Eric Fruits
Will the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint make consumers better or worse off? A central question in the review of this merger—as it is in all merger reviews—is the likely effects that the transaction will have on consumers.
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
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
April 5, 2017

Ag-biotech merger symposium wrap-up [Ag-Biotech Symposium]

Geoffrey A. Manne
On Thursday, March 30, Friday March 31, and Monday April 3, Truth on the Market and the International Center for Law and Economics presented a blog symposium — Agricultural and Biotech Mergers: Implications…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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