Are All Mergers Inherently Anticompetitive?
A recent viral video captures a prevailing sentiment in certain corners of social media, and among some competition scholars, about how mergers supposedly work in . . .
Are All Mergers Inherently Anticompetitive?
Market Failure and Censorship in the Marketplace of Ideas
Use of the familiar metaphor of the exchange of ideas as a “marketplace” has historically presumed that free and uninhibited competition among ideas will . . .
AB 2408: California’s Effort to Combat Social Media ‘Addiction’
California’s state Assembly earlier this year passed A.B. 2408, which would impose a duty of care on social-media platforms for “any design, feature, or affordance that causes a child user… to become addicted to the platform.”
Expressive Trading, Hypermateriality, and Insider Trading
The phenomenon of social-media-driven trading (SMD trading) entered the public consciousness earlier this year when GameStop’s stock price was driven up two orders of . . .
Social Media, Securities Markets, and the Phenomenon of Expressive Trading
Commentators have likened the recent surge in social-media-driven (SMD) retail trading in securities such as GameStop to a roller coaster: “You don’t go on . . .
Yesterday’s outage made one thing clear – Facebook needs us a lot more than we need it
When Facebook and its other services disappeared from the internet on Monday night, it seemed to confirm many people’s worst fears about the company. The . . .
Polluting Words: Is There a Coasean Case to Regulate Offensive Speech?
Introduction Economist Ronald Coase devoted an article in the 1974 edition of the American Economic Review to an idea he had observed to be common . . .
Breaking Down House Democrats’ Forthcoming Competition Bills
Democratic leadership of the House Judiciary Committee have leaked the approach they plan to take to revise U.S. antitrust law and enforcement, with a particular focus on . . .
Conflicting Missions: The Risks of the Digital Markets Unit to Competition and Innovation
The UK's Digital Markets Unit will combine the powers and operating structure of a narrow sector regulator with a cross-sector purview that is much closer to the CMA’s economy-wide reach.