Junkyard Dogs: The Law and Economics of ‘Junk’ Fees
The notion of “junk” fees is a fine piece of rhetoric, but useless as an analytical tool. Many fees identified as junk impose costs . . .
Junkyard Dogs: The Law and Economics of ‘Junk’ Fees
The Under-Appreciated Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is best known as an economic communicator and popularizer. We argue that he should be better known as an academic economist.
Markets, Competition, and Fairness in the EU
Fairness considerations are increasingly evoked in economic policy and have become part of the current conversation on the objectives of competition policy. Fairness is . . .
In-Person Versus Online Instruction: Evidence from Principles of Economics
COVID-19 required many professors to switch from in-person teaching to online instruction, allowing exploration of a pivotal question in education: are learning outcomes better . . .
Neo-Brandeisianism’s Democracy Paradox
Neo-Brandeisians, including the current heads of the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies, have declared contemporary antitrust a failure. Among their chief complaints is that prevailing . . .
The Consequences of Caps on Cross-Border Payment Fees in Costa Rica
Executive Summary Under the auspices of Legislative Decree 9831, the Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR) has set maximum fees for acquiring and issuing banks . . .
Ads Aren’t Stocks, or How Bad Analogies Make Bad Law
A bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate would fundamentally remake the online digital-display advertising market by forcing the physical separation of a vertically . . .
A Systematic Content Analysis of Innovation in European Competition Law
Innovation plays a crucial role in defining competitive dynamics. Given this fact, one might expect ‘innovation’ to play a consistent role in antitrust law. . . .
The Federal Circuit Enriched Patent Owners Without Eliciting Better Inventions
How do changes in patent law affect the exchange by which society awards an exclusive right of limited duration and the inventor discloses technology . . .