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December 15, 2021

FTC Statement of Regulatory Priorities: Storm Clouds Are Looming

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears committed—at least, for the moment—to a path of regulatory overreach. The commission’s Dec. 10 Statement of Regulatory Priorities (SRP) offers, in addition to a periodic review…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 10, 2021

Italy’s Google and Apple Decisions: Regulatory Paternalism and Overenforcement

Lazar Radic

The Autorità Garante della Concorenza e del Mercato (AGCM), Italy’s competition and consumer-protection watchdog, on Nov. 25 handed down fines against Google and Apple of €10 million each—the maximum penalty contemplated by…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 8, 2021

FTC Challenge to Nvidia-Arm Vertical Merger: Potential Efficiency Justifications

Alden Abbott & Andrew Mercado

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Dec. 2 filed an administrative complaint to block the vertical merger between Nvidia Corp., a graphics chip supplier, and Arm Ltd., a computing-processor designer. The press release accompanying…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 29, 2021

Mandatory Interoperability Is Not a ‘Super Tool’ for Platform Competition

Samuel Bowman

On both sides of the Atlantic, 2021 has seen legislative and regulatory proposals to mandate that various digital services be made interoperable with others. Several bills to do so have…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 23, 2021

Political Philosophy, Competition, and Competition Law: The Road to and from Neoliberalism, Part 1

Lazar Radic

The interplay among political philosophy, competition, and competition law remains, with some notable exceptions, understudied in the literature. Indeed, while examinations of the intersection between economics and competition law have taught…

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November 19, 2021

Case closed: Google wins (for now)

Dirk Auer

The European Commission and its supporters were quick to claim victory following last week’s long-awaited General Court of the European Union ruling in the Google Shopping case. It’s hard to fault them.…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 8, 2021

What is the Appropriate Role for State Antitrust Enforcement?

Alden Abbott

In the U.S. system of dual federal and state sovereigns, a normative analysis reveals principles that could guide state antitrust-enforcement priorities, to promote complementarity in federal and state antitrust policy,…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 8, 2021

Judge Ginsburg: On the Proposed Digital Markets Unit and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

Douglas Ginsburg

[Judge Douglas Ginsburg was invited to respond to the Beesley Lecture given by Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Both the lecture and Judge…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 5, 2021

tl;dr – Benefits of Tech Mergers and Acquisitions

Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne

Background… Policymakers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union recently have pursued legislative and regulatory changes to make it more difficult for large companies, especially digital…

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