As recently as five years ago, markets for mobile wireless services in Europe were performing on par with, or even better than, markets in the United States. Today, there is broad agreement that the EU has fallen behind in at least some dimensions, especially with respect to the deployment of...

In this paper, I compare U.S. and (briefly) Canadian broadband policies and outcomes with the policies and outcomes in other advanced nations. The results show that the relatively deregulatory American approach to broadband policy has produced highly desirable results, including high levels of...

U.S. merger policy seeks to prevent transactions that would result in a substantial lessening of competition in a relevant product market. Competition is harmed when a transaction results in a significant increase in market power, defined as the ability of a firm, or group of firms, to set and...

This filing, from the Tunney Act proceeding in the Microsoft antitrust case, assesses the legal, policy and economic implications of the DOJ-Microsoft consent decreed - the Proposed Final Judgment . We find that (a) the PFJ fails to address meaningfully the violations of law found by the U.S....