Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics at MIT, and David K. Levine, Professor of Economics at the European University Institute. **** While driving a car, you hear a large bang, the car no longer accelerates properly, and the engine makes loud noises....Read More
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Carl Shapiro, Professor at Berkeley Haas and Berkeley Department of Economics. **** Over the past several years, we have witnessed a vigorous push to regulate the Big Tech companies, especially Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. In the European Union,...Read More
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor of Law and Dean’s Faculty Fellow and Director at the William & Mary Center for the Study of Law and Markets. **** The Curse of Bigness sketches Tim Wu’s NeoBrandeisian vision. Wu invokes Learned Hand’s assertion...Read More
Far from its depiction as a well-defined and linear techno-social phenomenon that developed incrementally over the last three decades following a consistent masterplan, the Internet of today has been transformed beyond recognition from its original version. The initial conditions under which the Internet developed were characterised by its distributed technological structure, which relied on an...Read More
Dear readers, the Network Law Review is delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by William H. Page, Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar Emeritus, University of Florida Levin College of Law, and John E. Lopatka, A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Law. **** In a recent article, we examine the relationship between the...Read More
"How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina", this month's guest contribution by Daniel F. Spulber, Professor of International Business, Strategy, and Law at Northwestern University. Spoiler alert: there does not appear to be empirical evidence that vertical mergers diminish innovation and harm competition.Read More
In the pending case of FTC v. Facebook, the Government alleges price increases for the “free” service. In this zero-price offering, the FTC argues that effective prices have been increased by Facebook by relaxing rules that protect against the use of personal information. These instances have not led to observed declines in quantities demanded (for...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. All the best, Thibault Schrepel **** Merger policy is a topic of heated debate. At times, the rhetoric on both sides seems exaggerated. Some claim that, partially...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan B. Baker, Research Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. All the best, Thibault Schrepel **** Antitrust expert Eleanor Fox has insisted for decades that antitrust law’s central norm is to protect the competitive process, not to promote consumer...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy, and Maurice E. Stucke, Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and co-founder of the...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Jonathan M. Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, and David J. Teece, Tusher Professor of Global Business in the Institute for Business Innovation, University of California, Berkeley. All the best, Thibault Schrepel...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Lawrence J. White, Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at New York University. All the best, Thibault Schrepel **** Introduction The delineation of relevant markets is a too-often neglected area of antitrust discussion. It is boring. It is infrastructure. It is technical. And...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to present you with this month’s guest article by Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law at King’s College London. All the best, Thibault Schrepel **** Mergers in the Digital Economy 1. Introduction For a few years now, legal scholars and policy-makers have been questioning whether existing legal frameworks are fit to address...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Tom is making the point that primary implications behind recent proposed antitrust reforms are not economic, but political. Tom, thank you very much! All the best, Thibault Schrepel **** An America Fit for the Digital...Read More
Dear readers, I am delighted to announce that this month’s guest article is authored by Okeoghene Odudu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law; Fellow in Law, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Oke asks whether competition agencies harm welfare, therefore following from Richard Whish’s Concurrentialiste contribution “Do Competition Lawyers Harm Welfare?” footsteps. I am confident that you will enjoy reading this as much as I...Read More
