Resources Archive - International Center for Law & Economics

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

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

February 24, 2020

Comments of ICLE on the Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (Matter Number P810034)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

Although it is doubtless correct that the 1984 Nonhorizontal Merger Guidelines require updates in light of the last three decades of legal and economic developments, it is by no means…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 24, 2020

Comment by Various Antitrust Scholars from the Truth on the Market Blog Symposium on the VMGs (Matter Number P810034)

Tim Brennan & Luke Froeb & Eric Fruits & Douglas Ginsburg & Herbert Hovenkamp & Jonathon Jacobson & William Kolasky & Tad Lipsky & Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Joshua Wright

In response to the Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines released by DOJ and the FTC on January 10, 2020,1 the International Center for Law & Economics convened a blog symposium to…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 18, 2020

Towards a Theory of Market Power

Mark Jamison

This paper analyzes the question of market power. Longstanding definitions and analytical tools are inadequate because they conflate conditions under which a firm has unbeneficial control over its markets (market power) with situations where firms are successful because they are superior in how they serve customers (expanding consumer welfare).

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 17, 2020

ICLE STATEMENT TO USTR on the 2019 GSP REVIEW of South Africa

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris

We submit this statement in support of IIPA’s petition to review South Africa’s GSP eligibility in light of South Africa’s failure to provide “adequate and effective protection” to intellectual property…

Intellectual Property

January 8, 2020

Making Sense of the Google Android Decision (part 3): Where is the Harm?

Dirk Auer

This is the third in a series of TOTM blog posts discussing the Commission’s recently published Google Android decision. It draws on research from a soon-to-be published ICLE white paper.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 31, 2019

The Evolution of Antitrust Doctrine After Ohio v. Amex and the Apple v. Pepper Decision That Should Have Been

Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne

If the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Apple Inc. v. Pepper (Apple) had hewed to the precedent established by Ohio v. American Express Co. (Amex), it would have begun its…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 14, 2019

What if rising concentration were an indication of more competition, not less?

Geoffrey A. Manne

An oft-repeated claim of conferences, media, and left-wing think tanks is that lax antitrust enforcement has led to a substantial increase in concentration in the US economy of late, strangling…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection