📍Taipei | Aug 4 | Hosted by Int'l Ctr Law & Econ & Taiwan FTC: "Shaping the Future or Being Shaped by It?" Panel II: Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Analysis. Panelists discuss defining dynamic competition, integrating innovation and IP, and supporting policies. 🔗 in comments

Read my new WP with Dirk Auer “Unfortunately, it appears these two pillars of the EU’s industrial policy—expansive digital regulation and startup promotion—may be working at cross purposes or, worse still, reinforcing each other in misguided directions.” laweconcenter.org/resources/a-eu…

prior to Uber NYC Taxi Medallions were selling for $1.5M, one of the more bloated instances of monopoly through regulatory capture. That money was not going to drivers except the few that were owners. A real anti-monopolist would enthusiastically support Uber's entry.

New 🧵& paper from ICLE Sr. Scholar Giuseppe Colangelo examines efforts to compel large online platforms to negotiate the use of news content and provide fair remuneration to publishers. Can the rationale for these regulations be substantiated by empirical evidence? More below ⬇️.

Empirical studies confirm a basic idea from economics: If you tax something, the price rises, and people use less of it. We don’t need fancy statistics to see the predictive power of simple supply and demand, writes Brian Albrecht on.wsj.com/472YtCt

Great op-ed by Brian Albrecht . If you haven't already, subscribe to his newsletter Economic Forces. wsj.com/opinion/you-ca…

It will not shock you to learn the ban on Airbnb was led by political contributions by the hotel industry, and led to increased hotel rates Somehow the neo-Brandeisian antitrust types are silent here

ICYMI: How do you compel large online platforms to negotiate the use of news content and provide fair remuneration to publishers? Giuseppe Colangelo explores the rationale behind policies like Australia's bargaining code, questioning if empirical evidence supports mandated payments🧵

Excited to see this in print.