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September 8, 2021

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

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 7, 2021

More Evidence that the Patent System Promotes Dynamic Competition and Consumer Welfare

Alden Abbott

The patent system is too often caricatured as involving the grant of “monopolies” that may be used to delay entry and retard competition in key sectors of the economy. The…

Intellectual Property

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 19, 2021

Doubling Down on Durbin Disaster: Interchange Fee Caps Shortchange Consumers

Todd Zywicki & Ben Sperry

The U.S. economy survived the COVID-19 pandemic and associated government-imposed business shutdowns with a variety of innovations that facilitated online shopping, contactless payments, and reduced use and handling of cash, a…

Financial Regulation

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…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 9, 2021

How US and EU Competition Law Differ

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer & Samuel Bowman

U.S. and European competition laws diverge in numerous ways that have important real-world effects. Understanding these differences is vital, particularly as lawmakers in the United States, and the rest of…

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

August 2, 2021

Old Ideas and the New New Deal

Jonathan Barnett

Over the past decade and a half, virtually every branch of the federal government has taken steps to weaken the patent system. As reflected in President Joe Biden’s July 2021 executive…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection