Scholarship Archives - International Center for Law & Economics

September 10, 2020

Data Portability and Interoperability

Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman

While data portability may seem like an attractive option in certain markets, experience suggests it is not simple to impose even in cases where the trade-offs seem small.

Data Security & Privacy

August 11, 2020

The Deterioration of Appropriate Remedies in Patent Disputes

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Julian Morris & Dirk Auer

Property rights are an essential economic institution. As the great UCLA economist Harold Demsetz famously argued, property rights spur specialization, investment, and competition, which in turn increase productivity, innovation, and wealth throughout the economy.

Intellectual Property

July 31, 2020

Digital Markets Taskforce Consultation Response

Samuel Bowman

There is a danger that the UK is heading for a significant and potentially damaging overhaul of its competition policy on the basis of thin evidence, rushed analysis, and no attempt to measure the costs, benefits and risks of the approach being undertaken.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

June 22, 2020

The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Eric Fruits

Geoffrey A. Manne, Kristian Stout, Eric Fruits, "The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration", Kansas Law Review, Kansas Law Review Inc. 2019 vol. 68(5)

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 19, 2020

Against the Vertical Discrimination Presumption

Geoffrey A. Manne

"Platform competition is more complicated than simple theories of vertical discrimination would have it, and there is certainly no basis for a presumption of harm."

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 1, 2020

Consumer Welfare & the Rule of Law: The Case Against the New Populist Antitrust Movement

Elyse Dorsey & Geoffrey A. Manne & Jan M. Rybnicek & Kristian Stout & Joshua Wright

This Article makes the case in support of the current consumer welfare standard and against a sweeping set of unsupported populist antitrust reforms.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 30, 2020

Trust the Process: How the National Emergency Act Threatens Marginalized Populations and the Constitution—And What to Do About It

Geoffrey A. Manne & Seth Weinberger

When Congress expands executive power for purposes of protecting the nation against an emergency—whether real or imagined—that power is often turned against vulnerable, marginalized populations that are easily scapegoated as threats to the state.

Data Security & Privacy

April 29, 2020

The Ghosts of Antitrust Past

Alec Stapp

PPI Director of Technology Policy, Alec Stapp reviews the antitrust cases against IBM, AT&T, and Microsoft and discusses what we can learn from them today. He explains the relevant concepts necessary for understanding the history of market competition in the tech industry.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 27, 2020

Making Sense of the Google Android Decision

Dirk Auer

The European Commission’s recent Google Android decision will go down as one of the most important competition proceedings of the past decade. Yet, in-depth reading of the 328-page decision leaves…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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