in a piece coming out in NYU, M Wansley, S Weinstein, and B Broughman argue that, far from encouraging startups, Biden aggressiveness actually killed them by denying them a workable exit strategy, forcing them to seek less workable alternatives. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The DMA was always an industrial policy tool meant to hobble successful US tech companies & give a leg up to laggard EU competitors and other rent-seekers. It was always about politics. But guess what? You live by the sword of politics, you die by the sword of politics.

📅On August 4 at 9:00 AM GMT, Int'l Ctr Law & Econ + the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission host a global conference in Taipei: Shaping the Future or Being Shaped by It? Panels cover industrial policy, dynamic competition, and global antitrust standards. Registration link👇🏻

Merger analysis by infographic, I guess. Also, complements aren’t substitutes.

In a recent Information Technology and Innovation Foundation webinar on FTC v. Meta, Daniel J Gilman and Alden Abbott joined a discussion on the FTC's case, the decision’s implications for the social media landscape, and what it means for the tech industry. Webinar🔗👇🏻

Oh hey, would you look at that, German DPAs want Apple and Google to kick DeepSeek off their AppStores because of GDPR violations. They're asking Apple and Google to gatekeep! But I thought gatekeeping was bad? 🤔

Today, Meta is making changes to advertising settings on Facebook and Instagram for EU users. This is a response to EU Commission's decision that found their earlier "pay or consent" model not compliant with the EU DMA regulation.

A couple of quick thoughts on what the Senate rejection of the AI regulatory moratorium means for U.S. technology policy going forward: 1) California and New York will now take the lead in shaping national AI policy. Their efforts to advance European-style technology mandates

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Here are my monthly reading suggestions. Topics include #computationalantitrust, efficient data sharing, an assessment of the DMA, GenAI through the lens of complexity science, proposals to fix the GDPR, new measures of innovator networks, articles operationalizing dynamic

Scholars from Int'l Ctr Law & Econ just filed a brief to the 9th Circuit in Epic Games v Apple, noting this injunction misapplies antitrust principles and could harm innovation. A short 🧵 summarizing their arguments. Geoffrey Manne, Daniel J Gilman, Dirk Auer. 🔗 in replies. 1/6

JUST OUT: new Int'l Ctr Law & Econ wp on “Superior bargaining power, antitrust, and digital markets: a transaction cost economics perspective”

Libertarianism is working far better in Argentina than almost anyone expected, even libertarians

1/ In 2024, India proposed an ex-ante digital competition law inspired by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). But does India really need it? A thread on why its existing competition regime may be better suited for the digital economy. 🧵 economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com…

"The blueprint for the future of the internet is being drawn up in courts and government agencies." A new oped from Dirk Auer in The Japan Times explores the potential consequences of recent control exerted by courts around the world over online policy. 🔗 in replies.

🏆 ANNOUNCEMENT 📕 The International Center for Law & Economics (Int'l Ctr Law & Econ) is launching the first edition of the Competition Law Master’s Thesis Award. The jury comprises Mariateresa Maggiolino (Università Bocconi), Alison Jones (King's College London), Anna Tzanaki (@universityleeds),

Think you have a pretty good competition law master's thesis? Then you'll want to apply to Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's First Competition Law Master's Thesis Award!

This was entirely predictable. When corporate managers, who control other people’s resources, can pursue the interests of lots of different groups, they can justify virtually any decision they make. They have cover to allocate those resources in a way that benefits them

Join Lazar Radic and a panel of experts in New Delhi 🇮🇳 on 8/7/25 for ‘𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲: 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀’ 🔗 with details in replies.

As legal and regulatory decisions play a growing role in shaping platform design, Dirk Auer writes in Japan Today News that striking the right balance between oversight and market-led innovation matters. Read Dirk's full paper from the 🔗 below.