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March 11, 2019

TIM WU’S BAD HISTORY: BIG BUSINESS AND THE RISE OF FASCISM

Alec Stapp

The recent increase in economic concentration and monopoly power make the United States “ripe for dictatorship,” claims Columbia law professor Tim Wu in his new book, The Curse of Bigness.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 1, 2019

Kristian Stout Debates Matt Stoller on the Bigness of Big Tech at Cato Institute Conference, "Who’s Afraid of Big Tech?" 03/01/19

Kristian Stout

ICLE Associate Director, Kristian Stout joins Matt Stoller of Open Markets Institute on the panel titled "Is Big Tech Too Big?" at the Cato Institute conference, "Who’s Afraid of Big Tech?"

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 28, 2019

ICLE Letter on The proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger and the state of the relevant economic literature

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

We write to address a crucial question relevant to your upcoming, March 12 hearing on “The State of Competition in the Wireless Market: Examining the Impact of the Proposed Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint on Consumers, Workers, and the Internet.”

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 21, 2019

ICLE Comments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

Gus Hurwitz & Chris Berg

The analysis in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Preliminary Report for the Digital Platforms Inquiry is inadequate in several ways. There is a real danger that if the policy recommendations outlined in the preliminary report were to be adopted, Australian consumers would be severely harmed.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 12, 2019

Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Incorporated: Post-Mortem

Geoffrey A. Manne

Geoffrey Manne joins Olivier Blanchard on the Federalist Society teleforum to discuss the potential impact of the Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Incorporated decision.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 10, 2019

Doing double damage: The German competition authority’s Facebook decision manages to undermine both antitrust and data protection law

Geoffrey A. Manne

The German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office or FCO) this week reached a decision in its nearly 3-year-old Facebook investigation.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 4, 2019

The Mozilla oral arguments and the ongoing hell of the “net neutrality” debate

Gus Hurwitz

In the opening seconds of what was surely one of the worst oral arguments in a high-profile case that I have ever heard, Pantelis Michalopoulos, arguing for petitioners against the…

Telecommunications

February 1, 2019

STRUCTURALIST INNOVATION: A SHAKY LEGAL PRESUMPTION IN NEED OF AN OVERHAUL

Dirk Auer

How does a market’s structure affect innovation? This crucial question has occupied the world’s brightest economists for almost a century, from Schumpeter who found that monopoly was optimal, through Arrow who concluded that competitive market structures were key, to the endogenous growth scholars who empirically derived an inverted-U relationship between market concentration and innovation.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 29, 2019

The Australian approach to “consumer protection” policy is a threat to consumer welfare and free speech

Kristian Stout & Akiva Malamet

The US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights recently held hearings to see what, if anything, the U.S. might learn from the approaches of other countries regarding antitrust and consumer protection.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection