September 30, 2024
Discover Global Network: Payments Are Foundation of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
Electric vehicles (EVs) represent a new paradigm of connected experience. The ongoing transformation in the automotive industry is more than just a transition from gasoline to electricity — it’s evolving...
September 29, 2024
Oasis Ticket Price Surge Sparks Urgent Calls for Dynamic Pricing...
Kerry Fine Gael MEP has voiced urgent concerns over the practice of dynamic pricing in ticket sales, a system where prices fluctuate in real-time based on demand. This plea follows...
September 27, 2024
FDIC Consent Orders Show Internal and External Risk Exposure
A spate of recent enforcement decisions from the FDIC underscores risks that banks face — external as well as internal ones, where employees have allegedly leveraged vulnerabilities from the inside. ...
September 27, 2024
Antitrust Chronicle® – Refusal to Deal
Dear Readers, Refusal to deal is one of the classic antitrust violations. In essence, it concerns situations where a dominant firm seeks to exclude its rivals by refusing to sell...
September 27, 2024
Why All Antitrust Claims are Refusal to Deal Claims and...
The refusal to deal claim in antitrust is, at its core, a prohibition on discriminatory supply of an input to downstream buyers. However, all in-house production requires such discrimination in...
September 27, 2024
What if Self-Preferencing is Not Refusal to Deal?
Self-preferencing refers to a business strategy that a company treats preferentially its own product in comparison with its customers’. Such conduct should be in principle allowed, and may be best...
September 27, 2024
Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal
For more than a century, anti-coercion has been a foundational principle for refusals to deal and anti-monopolization law in general. Since 2004, however, the Supreme Court has disregarded anti-coercion as...
September 26, 2024
Report: Wells Fargo Submits Third-Party Review to Federal Reserve
Wells Fargo reportedly submitted a third-party review of its risk and control overhauls to the Federal Reserve, seeking to end the Fed’s cap on its assets. The cap, which limits...
September 25, 2024
Debate: ‘Doubt is their product’—The difference between research and academic...
By: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London/Taylor & Francis Online) Policy-relevant research on market power In recent years, research on market power—its origins and consequences—has experienced a significant resurgence. A number...