Zywicki on the Two-Income Trap Hypothesis
My colleague Todd Zywicki offers an empirical rebuttal to the Warren-Tyagi “Two Income Trap” hypothesis which asserts that families with two incomes end up more . . .
Zywicki on the Two-Income Trap Hypothesis
Shelf Space Payments and Retail Bargaining Power
At his new blog Management R&D, Luke Froeb writes about the strategy of downstream firms reducing capacity in order to increase competition among suppliers… Read . . .
Antitrust in China
It appears that China may be very close to passing its Anti-Monopoly Law (HT: Danny Sokol). Like many others, I’ve been following these developments (see, . . .
This is Bad News for GMU
Wow. This is a coup for Chapman and more importantly (at least to me!), a major loss for GMU. Read the full piece here.
Antitrust News at GW Law
GW Law received a $5.1 million award to fund a Center for Competition Law resulting from the settlement of a class-action antitrust suit brought by . . .
Junk Social Science in the Medical Bankruptcy Debate
My GMU colleague Todd Zywicki and Gail Heriot (USD) have an op-ed in the Washington Times exposing Harvard Professors David Himmelstein and Elizabeth Warren’s study . . .
The EC versus Intel: The SO is issued
To no one’s great surprise (other than that it took so long), the European Commission issued a Statement of Objections against Intel today. More information . . .
Chicago, Post-Chicago, Post-Post-Chicago: On Using Shorthand Labels Responsibly
Over the past few weeks I’ve read at least two dozen papers, mostly by legal scholars (but some by economists) employing or critiquing economic analysis . . .
The FTC Releases its Credit-Based Insurance Scores Report
Here are a few of the key findings of the study which examined the use of credit-based scores to determine automobile insurance rates: