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5 Aug 2024, 8:54 am
One of the alleged benefits of said regulation (“fast and easy to apply”) is gone (read Dirk Auer here on the DMA’s broken promises). [read post]
31 Aug 2022, 12:37 pm
As Geoffrey Manne, Sam Bowman, and Dirk Auer have argued: Although it is convenient in theoretical modeling to assume that similarly situated firms have equivalent capacities to realize profits, in reality firms vary greatly in their capabilities, and their investment and other business decisions are dependent on the firm’s managers’ expectations about their idiosyncratic abilities to recognize profit opportunities and take advantage of them—in short, they rest… [read post]
13 Aug 2024, 1:30 pm
Geoff Manne and Dirk Auer explain what we mean by the dystopian view of antitrust: antitrust pessimists have set their sights predominantly on the digital economy—“big tech” and “big data”—alleging a vast array of potential harms. [read post]
13 Sep 2024, 8:26 am
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued comments Sept. 11 in support of a proposed U.S. [read post]
26 Sep 2024, 7:59 am
As Dirk Auer has pointed out, “(t)he DMA was designed both to be self-executing and to foster a more collaborative form of enforcement. [read post]
25 Mar 2022, 6:49 am
After years of debate and negotiations, European Lawmakers have agreed upon what will most likely be the final iteration of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), following the March 24 final round of “trilogue” talks. [read post]
9 Feb 2020, 4:05 pm
Manchester United have accused the Sun newspaper of receiving advanced notice of an intended attack on the house of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and have made a complaint to IPSO. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 10:40 am
As Geoffrey Manne and Dirk Auer have explained with respect to South Africa (but totally relevant to Latin America), “to regulate competition, you first need to attract competition”: Perhaps the biggest factor cautioning emerging markets against adoption of DMA-inspired regulations is that such rules would impose heavy compliance costs to doing business in markets that are often anything but mature. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 11:04 am
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly poised some time within the next month to file a major antitrust lawsuit against Amazon—the biggest yet against the company and the latest in a long string of cases targeting U.S. tech firms (see, for example, here and here). [read post]
