FTC Grocery Antitrust Conference
The FTC’s Bureau of Economics has scheduled a conference that looks very interesting and concerns a subject near and dear to my heart: antitrust in . . .
FTC Grocery Antitrust Conference
Reflections on the GMU/Microsoft Conference
As you may know, this past Friday we (Geoff and Josh) organized the inaugural GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation. Overall, we . . .
Senator Kohl on Antitrust, Part I — Airline Mergers
One nice thing about being a legal academic is that you can diversify your political portfolio. By that, I mean that you become somewhat indifferent . . .
Clinton, Obama, and Wal-Mart
At his new and excellent blog Hodak Value, frequent TOTM commentor Marc Hodak offers the following in response to a post at the Daily Kos . . .
Testimony on HB 1902 Prohibiting “Pay for Delay” Settlements
David Fischer brings my attention to testimony on HB 1902 which would prohibit “payment for delay” settlements between brand name and generic drug companies. FTC . . .
How Steve Levitt Might Save Economics
There’s been enough attention paid to the question of whether Steve Levitt is ruining economics. I did my share to contribute to the focus on . . .
GMU/ Microsoft Innovation Forum Next Week!
As Geoff noted the other day, The First Annual GMU / Microsoft Annual Conference on the Law and Economics Innovation is now just one week . . .
Congratulations to Kate Litvak!
Kate Litvak (UT Law, and friend of TOTM) , whose excellent paper (discussed around the blogosphere here and here), “The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act . . .
A New Defense of the Per Se Prohibition Against RPM?
Professor Sokol points to this paper by Ittai Paldor (an SJD student at U. Toronto) which Sokol points out qualifies as the rarely observed defense . . .