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18 Apr 2024, 7:43 am
For an extremely abridged list of readings, see ICLE’s Brian Albrecth, Dirk Auer, and Eric Fruits on the merger (here) and a bunch of us on the merger guidelines (here). [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]
4 May 2023, 7:40 am
Cloud gaming has not yet arrived as a major competitor to device-based gaming, as Dirk Auer points out (see also here regarding problems that have constrained the rapid emergence of cloud gaming). [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 8:16 am
In addition to ICLE’s Geoffrey Manne, Dirk Auer, Brian Albrecht, Gus Hurwitz, and myself, we were joined in our comments by 25 other leading academics and former agency officials, including former chief economists at the U.S. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 1:32 pm
For a selected bit of self-plagiarism, AICOA and OAMA received considerable attention in our symposium on Antitrust’s Uncertain Future; ICLE’s Dirk Auer had a Truth on the Market post on AICOA; and Lazar Radic wrote a piece on OAMA that’s currently up for a Concurrences award. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 9:16 am
ToTM posts by Dirk Auer, Alden Abbott, Gus Hurwitz, Gus again, and I enjoyed no monopoly on skepticism. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 2:46 pm
You can also read the brief explainer that Dirk Auer & I wrote on the DIR here. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 7:17 am
My ICLE colleagues Dirk Auer, Brian Albrecht, and Jonathan Barnett did too, among others. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 2:37 pm
” South Africa As my colleague Dirk Auer covered yesterday, South Africa has launched a sectoral inquiry into online-intermediation platforms, which has produced a provisional report (see here for a brief overview). [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 8:28 am
Dirk Auer and Ben Sperry have an overview here. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 9:28 am
For an overview of the bill and its flaws, see Dirk Auer and Ben Sperry’s tl;dr. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 9:23 am
Themes of an enforcement policy unmoored, overreaching, and unpredictable can be found in additional Truth on the Market posts from Dirk Auer, Jonathan Barnett, and Brian Albrecht. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 8:05 am
For more, see Dirk Auer’s or Geoffrey Manne’s threads on the amended complaint. [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]
11 Jul 2022, 1:02 pm
Geoffrey Manne, Dirk Auer, Eric Fruits, Lazar Radic and I go through more of the complications in our comments summited to the FTC and DOJ on updating the merger guidelines. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 7:30 am
My colleague Dirk Auer does a nice job dissecting the episode and discussing mistakes he sees in Oliver’s analysis. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 5:00 am
(This excellent series of posts—1, 2, 3, 4—by Dirk Auer on the European Commission’s misguided Android decision discusses in detail the significant costs of prohibiting self-preferencing on Android.) [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]
1 Feb 2021, 11:30 am
A Quantitative Analysis of the Commission’s Decisions Dirk Auer International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) Geoffrey A. [read post]
