Abuse of Plaintiff Win Rates as Evidence that Antitrust Law Is Too Lenient
I was recently reading Dean Chemerinsky (Irvine Law) on the Roberts Court at Age 3. One of Chemerinsky’s standard takes when he talks about the . . .
Abuse of Plaintiff Win Rates as Evidence that Antitrust Law Is Too Lenient
Google Yahoo Deal Update
The Wall Street Journal offers an update on the settlement talks with DOJ over the Google-Yahoo deal, which includes some interesting details about possible concessions . . .
GCP on the Section 2 Report Schism
Global Competition Policy has a trio of interesting articles on the DOJ Section 2 Report, and FTC response, which I’ve blogged about here and here . . .
Posner’s Definition of a “Private Sector” Response
Many observers have been shocked by the level of government involvement in the U.S. economy in recent days. Among other things, the government has (1) . . .
May Treasury Buy Newly Issued Securities of Ailing Financial Firms?
Last week I posted about Lucian Bebchuk’s thoughtful bailout plan, which would have expanded Treasury’s powers to include the ability to make direct investments in . . .
What Did Twombly Do Anyway?
Here is a very interesting empirical paper examining post-Twombly pleading from Martin Redish and Lee Epstein describing the state of affairs at the appellate court . . .
Commissioner Rosch v. Economics, Again
I’ve been critical of the Federal Trade Commission, and particularly Commissioner Rosch, for embracing what I think is a dangerously obsolete view of the role . . .
Armen Alchian Plays Prisoners’ Dilemma
Many economists know of the famous repeated prisoners’ dilemma experiments played by famous economists. I recently came across this old post from Brad Delong with an . . .
Hazlett on Net Neutrality and Antitrust
My colleague Tom Hazlett has an interesting piece in the Financial Times chiming in on the network neutrality debate. Hazlett makes the point that if . . .