Stian Westlake and Jonathan Haskel find that recent changes in interfirm competition are driven not by less competitive markets, but by the growing importance of intangible capital like R&D, brands, software, and organizational development.
A review of the literature demonstrates that interchange-fee caps do more harm than good, especially for lower-income consumers.
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.
Jamie Whyte •
September 10, 2021
Introduction Economist Ronald Coase devoted an article in the 1974 edition of the American Economic Review to an idea he had observed to be common . . .
The instinct to promote broadband network buildout is understandable, but precisely how that infrastructure funding is deployed will determine whether such proposals succeed or fail.
Samuel Bowman •
July 31, 2020
There is a danger that the UK is heading for a significant and potentially damaging overhaul of its competition policy on the basis of thin evidence, rushed analysis, and no attempt to measure the costs, benefits and risks of the approach being undertaken.
Dirk Auer •
February 27, 2020
The European Commission’s recent Google Android decision will go down as one of the most important competition proceedings of the past decade. Yet, in-depth reading . . .
Mark Jamison •
January 18, 2020
This paper analyzes the question of market power. Longstanding definitions and analytical tools are inadequate because they conflate conditions under which a firm has unbeneficial control over its markets (market power) with situations where firms are successful because they are superior in how they serve customers (expanding consumer welfare).
The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint has been characterized as a “4-to-3 merger” because after the merger there will be 3 national mobile network operators. . . .