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22 Apr 2024, 3:13 pm
“A federal statute requiring states to recognize contractual choice-of-law provisions would alleviate much of the current compliance burdens,” suggests legal scholar Geoffrey Manne, voicing support for federal oversight. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 1:41 pm
A year after it was created by the Government of India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs to examine the need for a separate law on competition in digital markets, India’s Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) in February both published its report recommending adoption of such rules and submitted the draft Digital Competition Act (DCA), which is virtually identical to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 2:13 pm
— Geoffrey Manne (@geoffmanne) February 28, 2024 In short, mark me unconvinced by this latest FTC foray into mergerland. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 7:16 am
Sophisticated courts hopefully will hear the oinks, and agree with Geoffrey Manne that “[t]he primary effect of these updated guidelines is to reduce their utility to courts as a reflection of current legal and economic understanding. [read post]
22 Nov 2023, 6:44 am
” It’s not entirely clear what the column’s author, Geoffrey A. [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]
2 Oct 2023, 5:00 am
As Geoffrey Manne and I wrote back in the day when we considered the efficiencies of hospital mergers: [M]uch of this consolidation has also arguably led to increased efficiency and greater benefits for consumers. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 5:14 am
(emphasis added) Geoffrey Manne, Kristian Stout, and Ben Sperry point out that rate regulation is one of the defining features of most Title II services. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 9:29 am
In a recent Truth on the Market commentary, Lazar Radic and Geoffrey Manne provided an outstanding succinct critique of key elements of the FTC’s (then) expected Amazon case. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 4:50 am
Today, net neutrality appears to be a solution in search of a problem, as my International Center for Law & Economics colleagues Geoffrey Manne, Kristian Stout, and Ben Sperry have noted: History has, by now, definitively demonstrated that the FCC’s January 2018 repeal of the Open Internet Order didn’t produce the parade of horribles that net-neutrality advocates predicted. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 2:35 pm
Similarly, Geoffrey Manne, Kristian Stout, and I proposed in our paper, “Who Moderates the Moderators? [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 12:16 pm
” Also in the WSJ are my ICLE colleagues Gus Hurwitz and Geoffrey Manne, reflecting on “antitrust regulation by intimidation” and suggesting that “Lina Khan’s new merger guidelines won’t convince judges, but they may scare companies into inaction. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 1:06 pm
In our recent issue brief, Geoffrey Manne, Kristian Stout, and I considered the antitrust economics of state-owned enterprises—specifically the local power companies (LPCs) that are government-owned under the authority of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). [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]
2 Aug 2023, 12:54 pm
Together with my International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) colleagues Geoffrey Manne and Kristian Stout—respectively, ICLE’s president and director of innovation policy—we examine these issues in a newly published ICLE issue brief. [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 1:30 pm
On July 19, the District Court for the Northern District of California denied the FTC’s bid to enjoin Microsoft’s vertical acquisition of video game publisher Activision. [read post]
24 May 2023, 1:13 pm
Taamneh, Geoffrey Manne, Kristian Stout, and I spilled a lot of ink thinking through the law & economics of intermediary liability and how to draw lines when it comes to social-media companies’ responsibility to prevent online harms stemming from illegal conduct on their platforms. [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]
3 Mar 2023, 6:21 am
It was instead about my boss, Geoffrey Manne, the president of the International Center for Law & Economics: While none of this biography is true, it doesn’t harm my reputation, nor does it give rise to damages. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 11:55 am
In the hurly burly of work and life, I lost touch with the proceedings in Mann, but recently I became aware of interesting gatekeeping rulings, issued in 2021.[4] I was particularly intrigued by the activity of Naomi Oreskes, qua historian, who sought to offer an expert witness opinion in the Mann case. [read post]
