We apply and extend the cost-based approach to bundling and tying under competition developed in Evans and Salinger (2004) to over-the-counter pain relievers and cold medicines. We document that consumers pay much less for tablets with multiple ingredients than they would if they bought tablets...

"This book is a selection of 14 brief essays designed to provide a multinational perspective on the current state, and future, of competition law in media markets. Whether it pertains to platform markets, crypto-currencies, or newspaper mergers, the reality is that antitrust enforcement has...

Web-based businesses are increasingly the subject of antitrust concerns. Plaintiffs in the United States have sued eBay for tying its online payments service to its transaction service. Multiple jurisdictions in the European Community have claimed that Apple has violated the competition laws by...

Three major technological trends will lead to a significant transformation of the payments industry: the development of online advertising technologies that will increasingly rely on transaction data, the movement of payment innovation from the existing jerry-rigged linkages of hardware and...

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing...