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Extending & Rebutting Edelman & Lockwood on Search Bias

In my last post, I discussed Edelman & Lockwood’s (E&L’s) attempt to catch search engines in the act of biasing their results—as well as their failure to actually do so.  In this post, I present my own results from replicating their study.  Unlike E&L, I find that Bing is consistently more biased than Google, for ... Extending & Rebutting Edelman & Lockwood on Search Bias

Washington Privatizes Liquor Sales

Washington voters took a big step in yesterday’s election and approved an initiative, known as I-1183, to privatize state liquor sales.  Privatization of alcohol sales has been an issue I’ve tracked here at TOTM (see e.g., here).  Many states strictly regulate liquor sales through state ownership of liquor stores and required distribution through wholesalers.  These ... Washington Privatizes Liquor Sales

Law school applications and opportunity costs

Many believe that law school applicants have been misled about or just don’t understand the market for legal services. I think it’s worth exploring the alternative hypothesis that law school is college grads’ best opportunity despite the market.   Today’s WSJ discusses one possible basis for this conclusion — college students’ poor choice of what ... Law school applications and opportunity costs

Herman Cain, AGCO, and the Oil-for-Food Bribery Settlement

I don’t share this to offer an opinion on the underlying action, but I thought it would be an item of interest to our readers.  Much has been written on this blog about challenges in the SEC’s FCPA enforcement process. I am surprised the news media hasn’t touched Herman Cain’s relationship with AGCO Corp. during ... Herman Cain, AGCO, and the Oil-for-Food Bribery Settlement

Investigating Search Bias: Measuring Edelman & Lockwood’s Failure to Measure Bias in Search

Last week I linked to my new study on “search bias.”  At the time I noted I would have a few blog posts in the coming days discussing the study.  This is the first of those posts. A lot of the frenzy around Google turns on “search bias,” that is, instances when Google references its ... Investigating Search Bias: Measuring Edelman & Lockwood’s Failure to Measure Bias in Search

Raising Rivals’ Costs, Pizza Edition

Many antitrust law professors are fond of using arson — e.g., a firm burning down the rival’s factory — as the paradigmatic example of exclusionary conduct that might raise rivals’ costs without plausible efficiency justifications.  Here is a modern example with law school hypothetical written all over it involving a Domino’s Pizza manager burning down ... Raising Rivals’ Costs, Pizza Edition

Exclusion and the BCS

Every year around this time—around week 10 of college football season—we are reminded of the inequity of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system. Instead of permitting an open playoff system to determine the college football champion, as is done by most other NCAA sports including Division II football since 1973, and more famously, NCAA basketball, ... Exclusion and the BCS

What happens to a law firm’s work after the firm dies?

Today’s WSJ covers the Howrey bankruptcy and specifically the ex-partners’ and their new firms’ potential liabilities for unfinished business taken from Howrey. As the article says, Howrey’s bankruptcy trustee, the custodian of its claims under state law, “has the right to sue for profits generated by work that partners started at their old law firms ... What happens to a law firm’s work after the firm dies?

Law firms’ competition

The biggest competition for law firms is not other law firms but in-house counsel. So reports the ABAJ.   I make a similar point in a paper I’m presenting at a University of Wisconsin program next week. There are two reasons for this:  pressures on firms to reduce fees, and law’s information revolution which is reducing ... Law firms’ competition

Say on say on pay?

“Say on pay” seems like one of those “chicken soup” ideas — at best salutary and at worst unobjectionable.  Who could object to letting the shareholders vote on executive pay? Minor Myers, for one, in The Perils of Shareholder Voting on Executive Compensation. He suggests that “the more involved shareholders are in a firm’s managerial ... Say on say on pay?

Abolishing corporate personhood

Since the day it was handed down, Citizens United has been a kind of political flypaper for bad laws.  The first dead bugs sought to exploit the decision’s caveats by targeting disclosure and shareholder approval (the Shareholder Protection Act, critized here) and prohibiting political expenditures by government contractors (the Disclose Act). More recently, CU-haters are ... Abolishing corporate personhood

Iowa University Prediction Markets

These things continue to fascinate me and provide lots of opportunity for procrastination.  The Iowa University Prediction Market IEM has a new update on the Republican presidential primary: Romney Leads the Iowa Electronic Markets October 26, 2011 |  The Iowa Independent by: Lynda Waddington The value of the former Massachusetts governor continues to rise above ... Iowa University Prediction Markets