This Spring 2011 issue, our 13th, marks an important turning point. When we started in 2005, while we could have dispensed with a print edition and published entirely online, we didn’t think either our authors or readers were ready. Authors liked the prestige of print and many readers liked thumbing through a print journal. The… Continue reading Letter From the Editor-Spring 2011
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Journalism, Competition, and the Digital Transition
Oliver Bethell, Matthew Bye, May 17, 2011 This article considers the role of competition law and policy in shaping the news industry’s digital transition. It begins by examining the shifting landscape for traditional media companies and describing Google’s approach to news. The article then addresses arguments that exemptions from the antitrust laws are necessary to facilitate a digital transition… Continue reading Journalism, Competition, and the Digital Transition
April Blog o’ Blogs
In this issue, we look at sports (but not the NFL!), sound wedding bells for the English authorities, chat with Joaquin Almunia, question whether antitrust provides a remedy for net neutrality, determine the future of Google Books, fly into the airwaves over both the U.S. and Europe, look at the Buzz around privacy, encourage Ghana… Continue reading April Blog o’ Blogs
The Pro-competitive Value of Closed Platforms & Walled Gardens: Some Thoughts In Response to Tim Wu
Amanda Reeves, Daniel Wall, Mar 30, 2011 There has been a great deal of recent discussion, both inside and outside of antitrust circles, on the merits of “open” as opposed to “closed” business structures. Much of this discussion focuses on key technology markets, in which competition among products and systems that exhibit relative degrees of… Continue reading The Pro-competitive Value of Closed Platforms & Walled Gardens: Some Thoughts In Response to Tim Wu
Blog o’ Blogs with Casey Stengel & Others
Our last item in this month’s Blog o’ Blogs is a special treat—Casey Stengel’s 1958 antitrust testimony—it has to be read to be believed. Before that, we present insights into comp. authorities, reveal a private meeting between Google and EC chiefs, provide guidance on e-Discovery presentations, consider questions of bias and priorities at the commissions,… Continue reading Blog o’ Blogs with Casey Stengel & Others
Jan 2011 Blog o’ Blogs
Our Jan. Blog o’ Blogs looks back at a diverse collection of end-of-the year blogs. Entries taste appropriate wines to serve with the new Horizontal Guidelines; reopen the Google book issue; sketch the future of an Almunist approach; attend the party looking to revisit (not for the last time) minimum pricing; teach South African sausage… Continue reading Jan 2011 Blog o’ Blogs
October Blog o’ Blogs
Our Oct. Blog ‘o Blogs includes a Mark Lemley interview exploring IP & antitrust; an antitrust approach to choosing a Rabbi; a look at whether the Sherman Act is “frisky” enough to deal with online businesses; the French approach—or non-approach—to setting fines; the threat of Behavioral Antitrust; market definition questions in a Google and Facebook… Continue reading October Blog o’ Blogs
August Blog ‘o Blogs
Our August Blog o’ Blogs is full of questions: How should e-books be priced? Can competition help revive the Russian economy? Does the FTC have too much time on its hands? Can antitrust deal constructively with publicity, privacy, and innovation issues? Is antitrust the new prohibition weapon against beer and consumption? And, finally, Randy… Continue reading August Blog ‘o Blogs
Sponsored Search Auctions: Simple Economics and Implications for Antitrust Policy
Renato Gomes, Jul 27, 2010 The most valuable asset of many two-sided platforms is their user base. In a celebrated example, Internet search engines (such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing) derive most of their revenue from selling the eyeballs of millions of searchers to advertisers. For each query entered by searchers, search engines return a… Continue reading Sponsored Search Auctions: Simple Economics and Implications for Antitrust Policy
July Blog o’ Blogs
July Blog o’ Blogs Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, leads off our blog collection with a look at the potentially large impact on antitrust from the financial reform bill, then Hong Kong’s antitrust bill gets a decidedly unenthusiastic reception. We follow with close looks at the high cost of antitrust litigation and… Continue reading July Blog o’ Blogs