Designing a Pattern, Darkly
There is growing academic, regulatory, and legislative interest in “dark patterns” – digital design practices that influence user behavior in ways that may not . . .
Designing a Pattern, Darkly
Data Portability and Interoperability
While data portability may seem like an attractive option in certain markets, experience suggests it is not simple to impose even in cases where the trade-offs seem small.
The Deterioration of Appropriate Remedies in Patent Disputes
Property rights are an essential economic institution. As the great UCLA economist Harold Demsetz famously argued, property rights spur specialization, investment, and competition, which in turn increase productivity, innovation, and wealth throughout the economy.
Digital Markets Taskforce Consultation Response
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.
The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration
Geoffrey A. Manne, Kristian Stout, Eric Fruits, "The Fatal Economic Flaws of the Contemporary Campaign Against Vertical Integration", Kansas Law Review, Kansas Law Review Inc. 2019 vol. 68(5)
Against the Vertical Discrimination Presumption
"Platform competition is more complicated than simple theories of vertical discrimination would have it, and there is certainly no basis for a presumption of harm."
Steering Incentives of Platforms: Evidence from the Telecommunications Industry
We study the trade-offs faced by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that serve as platforms through which consumers access both television and internet services. As . . .
Consumer Welfare & the Rule of Law: The Case Against the New Populist Antitrust Movement
This Article makes the case in support of the current consumer welfare standard and against a sweeping set of unsupported populist antitrust reforms.
Regulation as Partnership
This article uses recent literature on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) to argue that “Regulation as Partnership” is often a more productive approach to regulation than . . .