Sykuta and Manne: Covering the Agricultural Antitrust Workshop in Iowa [#agworkshop]
Later this week Mike Sykuta and I will be winging our way to Iowa on behalf of the ICLE to attend the first of the . . .
Sykuta and Manne: Covering the Agricultural Antitrust Workshop in Iowa [#agworkshop]
‘Each use of salt in violation of this section shall constitute a separate violation’
I wonder if that is on a per pinch basis? I refused to believe this is real language, from a real bill. But Professor Bainbridge . . .
Credit derivatives don’t kill countries, politicians do
Looking for something to blame for the Greek debt crisis, some observers are pointing their fingers at credit derivatives. An article in yesterday’s New York . . .
TradeComet complaint against Google dismissed
TradeComet’s antitrust suit against Google has been dismissed by the S.D.N.Y. Court in which the case was being heard. The opinion is available here. The . . .
Has the Obama Administration Retreated From Behavioral Economics?
The WSJ implies that the answer is yes in an interesting article describing the Obama administration’s changing views on behavioral economics and regulation. The theme . . .
The Girl Scouts and Section 5
It turns out that the Girl Scouts price discriminate, i.e. they charge different prices for the same product in different parts of the country (HT: . . .
The Commission Wins an Exclusive Dealing Case
Today, the Commission announced a consent decree with Transitions Optical in an exclusionary conduct case. Here’s the FTC description… Read the full piece here.
The first thing we do, let’s kill the quants!
Professor Bainbridge has a provocative post up taking on empirical legal scholarship generally. The While the Professor throws a little bit of a nod toward . . .
NYT on Hazlett’s TV Broadband Auction Proposal
Richard Thaler’s NYT Economic View column features Tom Hazlett (my colleague, and former chief economist as the FCC) proposal for auctioning off TV spectrum. Thaler . . .