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14 Mar 2025, 1:18 pm
As I wrote in December (and also see Alden Abbott here), several things about Southern Glazer’s stand out. [read post]
3 Feb 2025, 3:00 am
Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy Alden Abbott, Thibault Schrepel (eds.) [read post]
7 Jan 2025, 9:28 am
From a broad perspective, could you provide us with an overview of the current global trend toward the implementation of industrial policy? [read post]
6 Dec 2024, 7:12 am
For more concerns about the case, see, for example, my International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) colleague Geoff Manne here; my ICLE colleagues Brian Albrecht and Gus Hurwitz here; Greg Werden, former chief counsel for economics at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, here; former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott here; and me here. [read post]
11 Nov 2024, 5:45 am
Yun (George Mason U Antonin Scalia Law) has posted “The Folly of AI Regulation” (Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy, Alden Abbott, Thibault Schrepel (eds.), Concurrences, 2024.) on SSRN. [read post]
13 Sep 2024, 8:26 am
I’m not the only one (I’m here and here; former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott is here). [read post]
20 Aug 2024, 6:24 am
Comments have been coming fast and furious (see, for example, Alden Abbott here; Greg Werden here, and in July, in advance of the opinion, here; an interesting thread by Herb Hovenkamp here; Asheesh Agarwal here, a thoughtful and more detailed International Center for Law & Economics white paper from Geoff Manne here; a post from Josh Wright here; and there’s a nice (if brief) pre-decision discussion between Randy Picker and Spencer Weber Waller here). [read post]
16 Aug 2024, 12:59 pm
Noncompetes have been a subject of much interest here at Truth on the Market (see Alden Abbott, Brian Albrecht, Corbin Barthold, Gus Hurwitz, Richard Pierce Jr., and your humble-if-obsessive scribe here, here, here, here, and here). [read post]
7 Aug 2024, 1:29 pm
About a month ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was preparing an antitrust suit against the nation’s three largest pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs), the intermediaries who negotiate drug prices on behalf of insurers and who manage benefits for nearly nine in 10 insured Americans. [read post]
2 Jul 2024, 8:46 am
Attorney General for Antitrust James Rill), former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott, and administrative-law scholars Richard Pierce and Jonathan Barnett, along with a pro-regulatory essay by Marina Lao. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 7:43 am
On competition rulemaking generally, see former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott (here); former DOJ Antitrust Division Chief Counsel for Economics Greg Werden (here); Richard Pierce of George Washington University Law School (here); and Thomas Merrill of Columbia University Law School (here). [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 9:01 am
These infirmities have been discussed at-length by, among others, Alden Abbott, Herbert Hovenkamp, and Randall Picker. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 2:29 pm
I have many concerns about the FTC’s NPRM (see here and here, for example, and add Brian Albrecht here and here; Alden Abbott here; and Greg Werden here). [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 5:59 am
To its credit, as my Mercatus Center colleague Alden Abbott notes: Capital One has used recent acquisitions to create new products that generate economic benefits, including enhancements in Capital One Shopping (through the acquisition of Wikibuy), Capital One Travel (through a partnership with Hopper), and Capital One Dining (through a collaboration with SevenRooms). [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 8:04 am
” As Alden Abbott has written on the case at hand, &ldqu [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:00 am
In addition to that letter and Kristian’s post, I would also recommend one by my former FTC colleague (and former FTC general counsel) Alden Abbott. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 6:32 am
Alden Abbott—former FTC general counsel—had a recent ToTM piece called “The Porcine 2023 Merger Guidelines (The Pig Still Oinks). [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 1:18 pm
It’s not baseless, but old agency hands—including, among others, former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott; former FTC Commissioner and Acting Chair Maureen Ohlhausen (with Ben Rossen here); former FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips; and Gregory Werden, former chief counsel for economics at the DOJ Antitrust Division—have argued that there is no such authority, and noted administrative-law scholar Thomas Merrill agrees. [read post]
22 Nov 2023, 6:44 am
(I’m here; my Manne is here, and here with Lazar Radic; former FTC General Counsel Alden Abbott says that the FTC’s complaint is “Perhaps the Greatest Affront to Consumer and Producer Welfare in Antitrust History” here). [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 7:48 am
Alden Abbott, Susan Dudley, and Mary Sullivan all discussed changes at the agencies alongside changes in other institutions. [read post]
