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1 month ago | 
laweconcenter.org | Eric Fruits |Kristian Stout |Ben Sperry |Geoffrey Manne
Regulatory Comments I.
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1 month ago | 
laweconcenter.org | Geoffrey Manne |Brian Albrecht |Dirk Auer
Amicus Brief INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE[1]The International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan global research and policy center aimed at building the intellectual foundations for sensible, economically grounded policy. ICLE promotes the use of law and economics methodologies to inform public-policy debates and has longstanding expertise in the evaluation of antitrust law and policy.
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1 month ago | 
laweconcenter.org | Brian Albrecht |Dirk Auer |Daniel Gilman |Geoffrey Manne
Amicus Brief I. INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAEThe International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) is a nonprofit, non-partisan global research and policy center aimed at building the intellectual foundations for sensible, economically grounded policy. ICLE promotes the use of law and economics methodologies and economic learning to inform policy debates and has long-standing expertise evaluating antitrust law and policy.
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1 month ago | 
laweconcenter.org | Geoffrey Manne |Brian Albrecht |Eric Fruits
Presentations & Interviews Geoff Manne on the Rationale and Goals of Digital Competition Regulations ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne discusses the rationale and goals of digital competition regulations in a presentation to Argentina’s Foro Competencia. Video of the full presentation is embedded below. Geoff’s presentation slides are attached. VIDEO
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Julian Morris |Eric Fruits |Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne
U.S. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation that would cap credit-card interest rates at 10%, with the claim that it would help poorer Americans. Unfortunately, both economic theory and centuries of evidence demonstrate that the effect would be quite the opposite.
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Eric Fruits |Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne
Modern tech markets share several key economic characteristics with the telecommunications markets of the recent past, a new working paper from Georgetown Law’s Jonathan Nuechterlein and Howard Shelanski argues. And while telecom regulators have over the years sought to address these key issues of network effects, economies of scale, and switching costs through various interventions, the paper notes that not all of these approaches were successful.
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Alden Abbott |Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne |Eric Fruits
A prospective trade deal between the United States and the United Kingdom could, if handled correctly, be a catalyst to spur global economic growth through enhanced trade and regulatory reform. This would require recognition by other major trading nations of the advantages of removing regulatory obstacles to trade liberalization. BackgroundA Feb.
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Alden Abbott |Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne |Eric Fruits
The major Western industrialized nations have experienced dramatically slower economic growth in recent decades. This slowdown has been particularly pronounced in the EU, though the United States has suffered, as well. Regulatory, tax, trade, and energy policy reforms that reduce market distortions and provide incentives for investment, production, and innovation could substantially address this problem.
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne |Eric Fruits
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust suit against Amazon, originally filed in October 2023, is scheduled for trial in October 2026. While we’ve previously explored the market-definition questions at the center of this case, several other economic concepts will be equally important in determining whether Amazon has violated antitrust laws.
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2 months ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Eric Fruits |Brian Albrecht |Geoffrey Manne |John Yun
The U.S. Commerce Department plans to revamp the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program with a shift toward a more technology-neutral approach, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced yesterday, adding that his department is also exploring ways to cut the program’s red tape.
