Geoff Manne on self-preferencing

S&P Global Market Intelligence – ICLE President Geoffrey Manne was cited by S&P Global Market Intelligence in a story about legislation to change U.S. antitrust policy. You can read the full piece here.

Geoffrey Manne, president and founder of the nonprofit, nonpartisan research center International Center for Law and Economics, said the proposal could end up raising consumer prices if Amazon is unable to promote its brands as much. “Currently, Amazon has an incentive to create its own private label products to compete with existing products, and it sells them more cheaply,” Manne said.