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Not Evil, But Unfair?
The buzz around a possible FTC case directed at Google is heating up again. So much so that the company has apparently commissioned a lengthy analysis by noted antitrust scholar, former Supreme Court...
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I Confess
I seem to be a little obsessed about Google. The now nearly constant stream of chatter about a possible FTC case doesn’t help. But I also had a some offline feedback on last week’s post, which fuels...
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Waiting Is The Hardest Part
The FTC may finally be moving toward an endgame in its long raging battle against patent settlements that it contends reduce competition in the pharmaceutical industry. Earlier this month it filed a...
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Don Almunia de la Mancha
Meanwhile, as though it’s long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, the EC is still fighting the browser wars, even though history has proved the theories underlying antitrust enforcement in the area...
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Google and How To Measure Leveraging
I don’t want to turn this into the all-Google antitrust blog, but this talk from Prof. Randy Picker of the University of Chicago is sufficiently interesting that I thought it warranted some discussion,...
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Roll Out The Barrel
The most recent Washington Monthly has an interesting piece by Tim Heffernan about consolidation and vertical integration in the booze industry and what he believes it means for alcohol consumption....
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For Our Eyes Only
It’s time for another theoretical discussion on a theme that underlies my Google posts and my yet-incomplete series on patent hold up (which may be closely related to the question of whether an...
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Come Fly Away
I heard an interesting rumor on the outskirts of the Spring Meeting that seems like it will make for a good blog post. As you may recall, I don’t think all is well in the realm of airline competition,...
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Feels So Wrong, Can’t be Wright
There’s a old joke about antitrust law and the dangers of pricing decisions. I’ve heard it several ways, but this as good a re-telling as a few internet searches have turned up: Three American...
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Competing for Fun
With apologies to Nicolas Petit at Chillin’ Competition for stealing a blog topic, Slate’s imaginary war between Google and Apple makes for interesting antitrust reading and might prove to be handy...
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