Yet Another Voluntary Pricing Experiment
This time from Paste Magazine (HT: Peter Schwartz via Wired Blog Magazine), and motivated by the Radiohead Experiment, and with an interesting twist… Read the . . .
Yet Another Voluntary Pricing Experiment
NYT’s Freudian Slip
I just wandered down to the local Panera Bread for lunch and picked up someone’s discarded copy of today’s New York Times. One of today’s . . .
Antitrust Activity and Distinguishing Influence from Quality
From the Economic Times: The European Union’s antitrust agency is becoming more influential just as its US counterparts have grown more cautious and inactive, experts . . .
Economic Illiteracy of the Week Award Goes To …
Michael Kimmelman at the NY Times. Luke Froeb beat me to the punch of this one and has already got a post up, but this . . .
Donations for San Diego Fires
I’ve been watching the news coverage of the San Diego fires this evening hoping for any bit of good news. It hasn’t come yet (a . . .
Lysine Cartel Video Available from DOJ
Todd Zywicki recommends Kurt Eichenwald’s The Informant, the fascinating story of the prosecution of the Archer Daniels Midland lysine cartel in the 1990s, and asks . . .
The Aftermath of a Type I Error: The Case of Conwood Co. v. United States Tobacco
It looks like California consumers, unlike their counterparts in several other states, will be getting cash instead of coupons in their settlement against U.S. Tobacco . . .
Nobel Prize to Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson
Congratulations to the winners! Here’s Tyler and Alex at Marginal Revolution on mechanism design generally and this year’s Nobel winners.
Peking University IEPR Antitrust Conference
Today marked the completion of the J. Mirrlees Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR) Conference on China’s Competition Policy and Anti-Monopoly Law at Peking University . . .