Scholarship Archives - International Center for Law & Economics

October 7, 2021

Issue Brief: The Great Transatlantic Data Disruption

Kristian Stout & Michael Mandel & Mikołaj Barczentewicz

(This issue brief is a joint publication of the International Center for Law & Economics and the Progressive Policy Institute) Executive Summary Data is, logically enough, one of the pillars…

Data Security & Privacy

October 1, 2021

BETTER TOGETHER: THE PROCOMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF MERGERS IN TECH

Samuel Bowman & Sam Dumitriu

Executive Summary The British government is consulting on whether to lower the burden of proof needed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to block mergers and acquisitions involving large…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 10, 2021

Polluting Words: Is There a Coasean Case to Regulate Offensive Speech?

Jamie Whyte

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 among his academic colleagues: (I)n…

Innovation & The New Economy

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

August 9, 2021

Technology Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control

Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman & Dirk Auer

Forthcoming in the Missouri Law Journal, ICLE scholars scrutinize recent scholarship regarding so-called "kill zones" and "killer acquisitions" and the pitfalls that would accompany attempts to change existing merger rules and thresholds to account for them.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 15, 2021

Issue Brief: Pole Attachments and Broadband Build-out

Ben Sperry & Kristian Stout

President Joe Biden has made broadband build-out part of his Build Back Better plan, arguing that it constitutes essential infrastructure, much like electricity and water. The plan calls for $100…

Telecommunications

June 3, 2021

Conflicting Missions: The Risks of the Digital Markets Unit to Competition and Innovation

Samuel Bowman & Aria Babu & Sam Dumitriu

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.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 3, 2021

A Dynamic Analysis of Broadband Competition: What Concentration Numbers Fail to Capture

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Ben Sperry

The instinct to promote broadband network buildout is understandable, but precisely how that infrastructure funding is deployed will determine whether such proposals succeed or fail.

Telecommunications

May 20, 2021

Response to Ramsi Woodcock's The Hidden Rules of a Modern Antitrust

Geoffrey A. Manne

Woodcock’s bold claims ignore or misconstrue several critical aspects of the modern antitrust apparatus. Chief among these is the uncertainty that underpins antitrust enforcement, and the rule of reason’s role in decreasing this uncertainty.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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