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May 13, 2019

In Apple v Pepper, SCOTUS leaves home without its Amex

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

It might surprise some readers to learn that we think the Court’s decision today in Apple v. Pepper reaches — superficially — the correct result. But, we hasten to add, the Court’s reasoning (and, for that matter, the dissent’s) is completely wrongheaded.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 7, 2019

Is Amazon Guilty of Predatory Pricing?

Kristian Stout & Alec Stapp

Predatory pricing is a rather rare anticompetitive practice because the “predator” runs the risk of bankrupting itself in the process of trying to drive rivals out of business with below-cost pricing.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 2, 2019

The ICANN Board’s Important Test of Independence: .Amazon

Kristian Stout

One of the main concerns I had during the IANA transition was the extent to which the newly independent organization would be able to behave impartially, implementing its own policies and bylaws…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 25, 2019

Deadweight loss from no monopoly

Eric Fruits

The once-mighty Blockbuster video chain is now down to a single store, in Bend, Oregon. It appears to be the only video rental store in Bend, aside from those offering “adult” features. Does that make Blockbuster a monopoly?

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 12, 2019

BRIEF OF RICHARD A. EPSTEIN & GEOFFREY A. MANNE, IN SUPPORT OF Defendant in Pulse Network, LLC v. Visa Incorporated

Geoffrey A. Manne & Richard Epstein

To establish antitrust standing, Pulse must show not only “injury causally linked to an illegal presence in the market” but also antitrust injury “attributable to an anti-competitive aspect of the practice under scrutiny.”

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 3, 2019

Is European Competition Law Protectionist? Unpacking the Commission’s Unflattering Track Record

Dirk Auer

In a new ICLE Issue Brief, we question whether there is any merit to these claims of protectionism. We show that, since the entry into force of Regulation 1/2003, US firms have borne the lion’s share of monetary penalties imposed by the Commission for breaches of competition law.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 2, 2019

Amazon is not essential

Kristian Stout

The following is adapted from a recent ICLE Issue Brief on the flawed essential facilities arguments undergirding the EU competition investigations into Amazon’s marketplace that Kristian Stout wrote with Geoffrey Manne.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 1, 2019

This Too Shall Pass: Unassailable Monopolies That Were, in Hindsight, Eminently Assailable

Geoffrey A. Manne & Alec Stapp

Elizabeth Warren wants to break up the tech giants — Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple — claiming they have too much power and represent a danger to our democracy. As part of our response to her proposal, we shared a couple of headlines from 2007 claiming that MySpace had an unassailable monopoly in the social media market.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 29, 2019

Telecom regulators: Don’t get rolled by Rewheel

Eric Fruits

Will the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint make consumers better or worse off? A central question in the review of this merger—as it is in all merger reviews—is the likely effects that the transaction will have on consumers.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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