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Does it Matter if Competition is Fair or on the Merits? An Application to Platform Self-Preferencing
Michael L. Katz
Platform self-preferencing is often attacked as being “unfair.” Proponents of the consumer…
Is It Pro-Competition to Make Amazon and Google Less Consumer-Friendly?
Thomas M. Lenard
Preserving the Institutional Value of the FTC in the Digital Era
Ginger Jin and Liad Wagman
We examine several ways in which the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust…
Towards a More Vigorous Antitrust Policy?
Robert Crandall
The growth of the large, “dominant” digital platforms – as well as…
Recent Antitrust Developments with Michael Katz on Two Think Minimum
Michael L. Katz, Thomas M. Lenard, Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh Lam
Two Think Minimum · Two Think Minimum – Michael Katz Tom Lenard…
Comments Filed with the Federal Trade Commission on the Matter of “Draft Merger Guidelines”
Thomas M. Lenard, Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh Lam
In the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, the Department of Justice and the…
Do Policymakers Understand the Symbiosis of News and Social Media? Evidence from New Research on the Attention Economy
Scott Wallsten and Ava Uditsky
California’s state legislature is considering a bill that would require social media…
Where Does the Time Go? Competing for Attention in the Online Economy
Sarah Oh Lam, Nathaniel Lovin and Scott Wallsten
Many of the goods and services available online are free in the…
Comments Filed with the Federal Trade Commission on the Matter of “Non-Compete Clause Rule”
Sarah Oh Lam, Thomas M. Lenard and Scott Wallsten
The empirical evidence on non-compete agreements cited by the FTC shows mixed…
Greg Ip on Industrial Policy
Scott Wallsten and Greg Ip
Two Think Minimum · Greg Ip on Industrial Policy [00:00:00.330] – Scott…
