Showing 1 - 10 of 78
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503972
"The regulation of innovation and the optimal design of legal institutions in an environment of uncertainty are two of the most important policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovation is critical to economic growth. Regulatory design decisions, and, in particular, competition policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245292
Given the link between innovation and economic growth, the stakes of “getting it right” in high-tech antitrust are high. Caution and humility are warranted in light of both the historical hostility towards innovative business practices by competition policy as well as the large gaps of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115695
For more than a century, careful readers of the Green Bag have known that “[t]here is nothing sacred in a theory of law...which has outlived its usefulness or which was radically wrong from the beginning...The question is What is the law and what is the true public policy?” Professor Orin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088425
In recent years, some Canadian politicians and powerful interest groups have issued increasingly vocal calls for dramatic regulatory interventions into the country's payment cards system. In particular, they have called for a "hard cap" price-controls on interchange fees, a ban on contractual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073767
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835025
This article argues that mandatory securities disclosure regulation has unanticipated and ill-considered consequences. Disclosure regulation makes some forms of behavior more expensive relative to others. Rational actors will respond by shifting some conduct into comparatively cheaper outlets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778383
On November 14, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) issued an opinion condemning as an antitrust violation trademark settlement agreements between 1-800 Contacts (“1-800”) and fourteen online sellers of contact lenses. The settlement agreements arise from trademark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896456
In this article we examine the merits the arguments furthered by the field of behavioral law and economics over credit card surcharge fees. Claims about the real-world application of behavioral economic theories should not be uncritically accepted — especially when advanced to challenge a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868297