Background… California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently filed a state-law antitrust suit against Amazon, alleging that it imposes most-favored-nation clauses (MFNs) on its retailers and wholesalers, and that these dampen…

[The following is part of a digital symposium by Truth on the Market guests and authors on Antitrust’s Uncertain Future: Visions of Competition in the New Regulatory Landscape. Information on…

[The following is part of a digital symposium by Truth on the Market guests and authors on Antitrust’s Uncertain Future: Visions of Competition in the New Regulatory Landscape. Information on…

The FTC and DOJ's RFI on whether and how to update the antitrust agencies’ merger-enforcement guidelines is based on several faulty premises and appears to presuppose a preferred outcome.

In this brief for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ICLE and 26 distinguished scholars of law & economics argue that the district court in a suit brought by Epic Games rightly found that Apple’s procompetitive justifications outweigh any purported anticompetitive effects in the market for mobile-gaming transactions.

[The following is adapted from an amicus brief filed by the author and other professors of law & economics to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Epic Games…

The European Union's Digital Markets Act will intersect with EU and national-level competition law in ways that subject tech platforms to the risk of double jeopardy and conflicting decisions for the same activity.

The acceptance and implementation of due-process standards confer a variety of welfare benefits on society. As Christopher Yoo, Thomas Fetzer, Shan Jiang, and Yong Huang explain, strong procedural due-process protections promote: (1)…

In a new paper, Giuseppe Colangelo and Oscar Borgogno investigate whether antitrust policy is sufficiently flexible to keep up with the dynamics of digital app stores, and whether regulatory interventions are…