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 2, 2017

Are rules incompatible with the web? Let’s hope not: A response to Tim Wu

Geoffrey A. Manne & Neil Turkewitz

According to Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing, Tim Wu has written an open letter to W3C Chairman Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, expressing concern about a proposal to include Encrypted Media Extensions…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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 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

October 21, 2016

FCC Chairman Wheeler’s claimed fealty to FTC privacy standards is belied by the rules he actually proposes

Geoffrey A. Manne

Next week the FCC is slated to vote on the second iteration of Chairman Wheeler’s proposed broadband privacy rules. Of course, as has become all too common, none of us…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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

June 14, 2016

Senator Lee’s prescription for regulatory failure in the generic drug market

Geoffrey A. Manne

Brand drug manufacturers are no strangers to antitrust accusations when it comes to their complicated relationship with generic competitors — most obviously with respect to reverse payment settlements. But the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection