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September 27, 2021

Khan’s ‘Vision and Priorities for the FTC’ Statement Lacks Humility and Strategic Insight

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan’s Sept. 22 memorandum to FTC commissioners and staff—entitled “Vision and Priorities for the FTC” (VP Memo)—offers valuable insights into the chair’s strategy and policy agenda…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 23, 2021

ICLE Amicus Brief in Sanofi-Aventis U.S. v. Mylan Inc.

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz & Richard Epstein & Kenneth Elzinga & Thomas Lambert & Stan Liebowitz & Scott Masten & Michael Sykuta & Donald Boudreaux & Vernon L. Smith

A brief of amici curiae from the International Center for Law & Economics and other notable law & economics scholars in the 10th Circuit case of Sanofi v Mylan.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 23, 2021

tl;dr – Dystopia vs. Evidence-Based Policymaking

Dirk Auer & Geoffrey A. Manne

Background… All around the world, policymakers are proposing legislative changes that would drastically alter the ways that online platforms can operate. Motivating these initiatives have been fears that, absent explicit…

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September 14, 2021

Online Display Advertising: What’s the relevant market?

Eric Fruits & Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne

Digital advertising is the economic backbone of the Internet. It allows websites and apps to monetize their userbase without having to charge them fees, while the emergence of targeted ads…

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September 9, 2021

Antitrust Dystopia and Antitrust Nostalgia

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer

The dystopian novel is a powerful literary genre. It has given us such masterpieces as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. Though these novels often shed light on the risks of…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 8, 2021

Antitrust Dystopia and Antitrust Nostalgia: Alarmist Theories of Harm in Digital Markets and Their Origins

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer

Dystopian thinking is pervasive within the antitrust community. Unlike entrepreneurs, antitrust scholars and policy makers often lack the imagination to see how competition will emerge and enable entrants to overthrow seemingly untouchable incumbents.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 1, 2021

Breaking Down the American Choice and Innovation Online Act

Samuel Bowman

The American Choice and Innovation Online Act (previously called the Platform Anti-Monopoly Act), introduced earlier this summer by U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), would significantly change the nature of digital platforms and, with…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 10, 2021

Technology Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control

Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman & Dirk Auer

In recent years, a growing chorus of voices has argued that existing merger rules fail to apprehend competitively significant mergers, either because they fall below existing merger-filing thresholds or because…

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August 9, 2021

FTC Antitrust Enforcement and the Rule of Law

Alden Abbott

The language of the federal antitrust laws is extremely general. Over more than a century, the federal courts have applied common-law techniques to construe this general language to provide guidance…

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