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November 23, 2021

Political Philosophy, Competition, and Competition Law: The Road to and from Neoliberalism, Part 1

The interplay among political philosophy, competition, and competition law remains, with some notable exceptions, understudied in the literature. Indeed, while examinations of the intersection between economics and competition law have taught…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 19, 2021

Case closed: Google wins (for now)

Dirk Auer

The European Commission and its supporters were quick to claim victory following last week’s long-awaited General Court of the European Union ruling in the Google Shopping case. It’s hard to fault them.…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 17, 2021

The BIF Offers a Good First Step for Broadband, but the Devil Will Be in the Details

Ben Sperry & Kristian Stout

Capping months of inter-chamber legislative wrangling, President Joe Biden on Nov. 15 signed the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the bipartisan infrastructure framework, or BIF), which sets…

Telecommunications

November 9, 2021

Who Moderates the Moderators?: A Law & Economics Approach to Holding Online Platforms Accountable Without Destroying the Internet

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Ben Sperry

A comprehensive survey of the law & economics of online intermediary liability, which concludes that any proposed reform of Section 230 must meaningfully reduce the incidence of unlawful or tortious online content such that its net benefits outweigh its net costs.

Innovation & The New Economy

November 8, 2021

tl;dr – A Path Forward for Section 230 Reform

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

Background… The liability protections granted to intermediaries under Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 can and should be conditioned on platforms taking reasonable steps to curb harmful…

Innovation & The New Economy

November 8, 2021

What is the Appropriate Role for State Antitrust Enforcement?

Alden Abbott

In the U.S. system of dual federal and state sovereigns, a normative analysis reveals principles that could guide state antitrust-enforcement priorities, to promote complementarity in federal and state antitrust policy,…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 8, 2021

Judge Ginsburg: On the Proposed Digital Markets Unit and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

Douglas Ginsburg

[Judge Douglas Ginsburg was invited to respond to the Beesley Lecture given by Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Both the lecture and Judge…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 5, 2021

tl;dr – Benefits of Tech Mergers and Acquisitions

Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne

Background… Policymakers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union recently have pursued legislative and regulatory changes to make it more difficult for large companies, especially digital…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

November 4, 2021

Credit Cards and the Reverse Robin Hood Fallacy: Do Credit Card Rewards Really Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?

Todd Zywicki & Ben Sperry & Julian Morris

This paper considers the evidence for and against the reverse Robin Hood hypothesis, finding that the reverse Robin Hood may be more mythical than the original Robin Hood.

Financial Regulation