Written Testimonies & Filings Archives - International Center for Law & Economics

December 2, 2020

Comments to Senator Tillis, Request for Recommendations on Reforms to Section 512 of the Copyright Act

Neil Fried & Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

We believe that Section 512 revisions should create greater incentives for online service providers to prevent unauthorized dissemination in the first place. Ideally, service providers should license the content so that copyright holders, Internet users, and OSPs themselves can all benefit from a healthier online ecosystem.

Intellectual Property

November 19, 2020

Pandemic Risk Insurance Act Hearing

R.J. Lehmann

"It is profoundly more important that Congress do its job to get assistance to the businesses, workers and communities who need that help right now that it is to pretend to have the answers in 2020 to a crisis of unknown and unknowable dimensions that may befall us in 2025 or 2050 or 2100."

Financial Regulation

September 2, 2020

ICLE Pole Attachment Comments

Kristian Stout & Ian Adams

The central question presented by this docket is: How does the FCC properly incentivize the economically efficient rollout of broadband on existing infrastructure in order to optimize the process to ensure deployment as quickly as possible?

Telecommunications

May 15, 2020

Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets

Jonathan Barnett & Michael Baye & James Cooper & Daniel Crane & Kenneth Elzinga & Richard Epstein & Deborah A. Garza & Thomas Hazlett & Gus Hurwitz & Benjamin Klein & Jonathan Klick & Thomas Lambert & Tad Lipsky & Geoffrey A. Manne & Scott Masten & Maureen K. Ohlhausen & James F. Rill & Jan M. Rybnicek & Vernon L. Smith & David Teece & Robert Willig & Joshua Wright & John M. Yun

Pursuant to the House Judiciary Committee’s request for information to aid its inquiry concerning the state of existing antitrust laws, Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners offer the following joint submission.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 27, 2020

Comments in the Matter of Use of the 5.850 – 5.925 GHz Band

Ian Adams

On behalf of the International Center for Law & Economics, I offer the following reply comments in support of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to…

Telecommunications

April 21, 2020

Comments on Refreshing the Record in Restoring Internet Freedom and Lifeline Proceedings in Light of the D.C. Circuit’s Mozilla Decision

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz & Eric Fruits & Kristian Stout & Ben Sperry

In order to maximize the benefits of broadband to society, including through the provision of public safety communications and services, public policy must promote the proper incentives for broadband buildout.…

Telecommunications

April 20, 2020

ICLE Submission to Digital Advertising Services Inquiry

Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne

The purpose of this submission is to highlight some of the findings of the relevant scholarship to help to inform the ACCC’s work, and to highlight some of the problems that may arise during the course of the study, given the misconceptions about competition between advertising-funded digital platforms that are common in the media and popular debate today.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 17, 2020

Correcting Common Misperceptions About the State of Antitrust Law and Enforcement

Geoffrey A. Manne

On Friday, April 17, 2020, ICLE President and Founder, Geoffrey A. Manne, submitted written testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 9, 2020

ICLE Comments Regarding European Commission Guidelines on Certain State Aid Measures in the Context of the System for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Post 2021

Julian Morris & Dirk Auer

Emission trading programs have the potential dramatically to reduce the costs of abating pollution. When such programs are well designed, they can reduce abatement costs by as much as 50%.…

Innovation & The New Economy

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