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

January 21, 2021

A Reflection on Commissioner Pai, Chairman Pai, and Public Service

Joshua Wright

Ajit Pai has been, in my view, the most successful, impactful minority commissioner in the history of the modern regulatory state. And it is that success that has led him to become the most successful and impactful chairman, too.

Telecommunications

January 19, 2021

Pai’s Legacy of Progress in Closing the Rural Digital Divide

Gus Hurwitz

The technical and business challenges of connecting rural America are different. Rural America needs different things out of its infrastructure than urban America. And the attitudes of both users and those providing service are different here than they are in urban America. Aji Pai gets this.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 15, 2019

A Bargaining Model v. Reality in FTC v. Qualcomm: A Reply to Kattan & Muris

Joshua Wright & Douglas Ginsburg

In a recent article[1] Joe Kattan and Tim Muris (K&M) criticize our article[2] on the predictive power of bargaining models in antitrust, in which we used two recent applications to explore implications for uses of bargaining models in courts and antitrust agencies moving forward.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 27, 2017

The Proposed CREATES Act: How to Fix Legislative Barriers to Competition at the FDA

Geoffrey A. Manne

Written Statement of Geoffrey A. Manne on “Antitrust Concerns and the FDA Approval Process” U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 25, 2017

New ICLE study finds the Durbin Amendment still harms poorer Americans and small businesses

Geoffrey A. Manne

Today, the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) released a study updating our 2014 analysis of the economic effects of the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act. The new…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 30, 2017

How to Regulate: An Overview

Thomas Lambert

So I’ve just finished writing a book (hence my long hiatus from Truth on the Market).  Now that the draft is out of my hands and with the publisher (Cambridge…

Financial Regulation

December 9, 2016

Public Knowledge’s Lonely Echo Chamber of Copyright Advocacy

Geoffrey A. Manne & Neil Turkewitz

Yesterday the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee issued the first set of policy proposals following their long-running copyright review process. These proposals were principally aimed at…

Intellectual Property

November 23, 2016

The Internet Association’s vision for the future looks a lot like the past

Neil Turkewitz

Last week, the Internet Association (“IA”) — a trade group representing some of America’s most dynamic and fastest growing tech companies, including the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay…

Intellectual Property