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Meta Stands to Lose Tens of Billions of Ad Spend in Impending FTC Antitrust Trial

1 week ago | laweconcenter.org | Brian Albrecht

Brian Albrecht, chief economist at ICLE, was quoted in this AdWeek story about Meta’s trial with the FTC. Read the full story here. But it’s a potentially tenuous position for the agency to take because it focuses on a different time—and ultimately, a different market than today’s, said Brian Albrecht, an antitrust expert and the chief economist at the International Center for Law and Economics, a nonprofit policy research organization.
ICLE Comments to FCC Re: Delete, Delete, Delete

1 week ago | laweconcenter.org | Eric Fruits |Kristian Stout |Ben Sperry |Geoffrey Manne

Regulatory Comments I.
FRAND-Licensing Litigation Across the Atlantic: A Comparative Assessment of US and UK Jurisprudence on Telecom Disputes

2 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Valeria Silva |Brian Albrecht

ICLE Issue Brief [A Portuguese-language version of this issue brief is available here.]I. IntroductionThe global dissemination of telecommunication technologies, notably 5G, has enhanced interconnectivity across networks, borders, and suppliers of high-tech products and services.
Common Carrier Reforms to Promote a Healthy Market in the Rail Industry

2 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Kristian Stout |Valeria Silva

ICLE Issue Brief I. IntroductionThe common carrier obligation (“CCO”) requires railroads to provide transportation or service to any shipper on reasonable request.[1] Rooted in 19th-century common law, this duty historically ensured that railroads—once the dominant shipping carriers—served the public interest by hauling all manner of freight at fair rates.
ICLE Comments to House Energy and Commerce Committee Privacy Working Group

2 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Kristian Stout |Ben Sperry

Regulatory Comments I. IntroductionThe International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) appreciates the Privacy Working Group’s efforts to develop a comprehensive federal data-privacy and security framework. Our comments specifically address the request for information’s (RFI) Section v on artificial intelligence (AI), although they are also relevant to such related issues as market effects and regulatory fragmentation.
Testimony of Ben Sperry on Montana HB 408

2 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Ben Sperry |Kristian Stout |Alden Abbott

Written Testimonies & Filings I. IntroductionThank you for the opportunity to discuss Montana’s HB 408 here today. My name is Ben Sperry, and I am a Senior Scholar of Innovation Policy for the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
ICLE Comments to CRTC Re: Supporting Canadian and Indigenous Audio Content

2 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Kristian Stout |Ben Sperry |Alden Abbott

Regulatory Comments I. IntroductionWe thank the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC” or “the Commission”) for the opportunity to offer comments to this Broadcasting Notice of Consultation (“Consultation”).[1] We further request that you consider allowing Kristian Stout, author of these comments, to appear at the public hearing for this proceeding.
Legislation Is a Giveaway to Big Box Retailers at Expense of Arizona Small Business

3 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Julian Morris |Giuseppe Colangelo

Popular Media Legislation Is a Giveaway to Big Box Retailers at Expense of Arizona Small Business Lobbyists for big box retailers want Arizona’s legislature to impose price controls on card transaction fees. They claim that doing so will save merchants millions of dollars that will be passed on to consumers. But, we’ve heard this story before and it doesn’t end well. It’s also probably illegal. Read the full piece here.
ICLE Amicus to US Supreme Court in American Airlines v United States

3 weeks 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.
Is a VAT an export subsidy?

3 weeks ago | laweconcenter.org | Brian Albrecht

Brian Albrecht, chief economist at ICLE, was featured in Marginal Revolution with his analysis of VAT. Read the full story here. Here is a good post by Brian Albrecht, he works through the logic. A VAT, properly understood, does not favor say European producers over American producers. Work through his example if you don’t see this right away. In this sense the pro-tariff “fairness” arguments are quite wrong. Yet I am not entirely convinced by the rebuttals.