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August 20, 2018

ICLE Comments, FTC's Hearings On Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century

Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Gus Hurwitz & Kristian Stout

ICLE filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission in response to its request for comments in its recently announced Hearings On Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. Our full comments are available here.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 20, 2018

Lambert & Sykuta Comment to FTC on Common Ownership

Thomas Lambert

The Federal Trade Commission will soon hold hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The topics to be considered include...

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 16, 2018

Lowering the Barriers to Entry to the Common Ownership Debate

Thomas Lambert

One of the hottest topics in antitrust these days is institutional investors’ common ownership of the stock of competing firms. Large investment companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity offer index…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 10, 2018

Senator Warner’s proposals could harm entrepreneurs and consumers

Kristian Stout

Last week, I objected to Senator Warner relying on the flawed AOL/Time Warner merger conditions as a template for tech regulatory policy, but there is a much deeper problem contained in his proposals.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 9, 2018

Comments on the Draft Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill 2018

Julian Morris

Comments on the Draft Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill 2018. Submitted by Julian Morris, Executive Director, International Center for Law and Economics. Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation. 9 August 2018.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 3, 2018

E-cigarette taxation: Lessons from “sin taxes”

Eric Fruits

The Economist takes on “sin taxes” in a recent article, “‘Sin’ taxes—eg, on tobacco—are less efficient than they look.” The article has several lessons for policy makers eyeing taxes on e-cigarettes and other vapor products. Historically, taxes had the key purpose of raising revenues. The “best” taxes would be on goods with few substitutes (i.e., inelastic demand) and on goods deemed to be luxuries.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 31, 2018

EU engaged in antitrust gerrymandering against Google

Nicolas Petit

With its $5 billion fine against Google, the European Commission (EC) just applied to the search giant an old U.S. political trick: gerrymandering; the idea that if antitrust watchdogs draw markets narrowly enough, every company can be made to look like an evil monopolist.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 30, 2018

AOL/Time Warner merger conditions are a template for disastrous tech policy

Kristian Stout

Senator Mark Warner has proposed 20 policy prescriptions for bringing “big tech” to heel. The proposals — which run the gamut from policing foreign advertising on social networks to regulating feared competitive harms — provide much interesting material for Congress to consider.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 27, 2018

How blockchain will upend competition law

Thibault Schrepel

PARIS — Not a day goes by without some discussion of Bitcoin — and, by extension, blockchain. Soon, not a day will pass without blockchain being discussed in competition law…

Financial Regulation

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