As economists with significant experience in competition and regulatory matters, we offer comments on the remedies proposed by the Department of Justice to address the competitive effects flowing from the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, as recognized by the DOJ's Complaint. We find that...

By any measure, Google is one of America's most innovative companies of the last decade. Its search engine has literally changed the way people all around the world access information and conduct research. Google's ability to continue innovating, as well as the ability of other companies to do...

Vertically integrated DSL providers have been accused of engaging in a price squeeze to foreclose unaffiliated Internet service providers (ISPs). A price squeeze is a special case of a refusal to deal, in which the access price is set so high as to prevent the downstream provider from covering...

Competition authorities in foreign jurisdictions have recently adopted or are considering guidelines on applying competition law to intellectual property rights (IPR). A common concern that certain exercises of IPR can restrict competition underlies IPR provisions that would enable competition...