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Top Ten Lines in the FCC’s Staff Analysis and Findings
Geoff Manne’s blog on the FCC’s Staff Analysis and Findings (“Staff Report”) has inspired me to come up with a top ten list. The Staff Report relies heavily on concentration indices to make inferences about a carrier’s pricing power, even though direct evidence of pricing power is available (and points in the opposite direction). In ... Top Ten Lines in the FCC’s Staff Analysis and Findings
A Quick Assessment of the FCC’s Appalling Staff Report on the AT&T Merger
As everyone knows by now, AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile has hit a bureaucratic snag at the FCC. The remarkable decision to refer the merger to the Commission’s Administrative Law Judge (in an effort to derail the deal) and the public release of the FCC staff’s internal, draft report are problematic and poorly considered. But ... A Quick Assessment of the FCC’s Appalling Staff Report on the AT&T Merger
In re Pool Corporation: Yet Another Peculiar and Peverse Section 5 Consent from the FTC
TOTM readers know that I’ve long been skeptical of claims that expansive use of Section 5 of the FTC Act will prove productive for consumers. I’ve been critical of recent applications of Section 5 such as Intel and N-Data. Now comes yet another FTC consent decree in PoolCorp. I’m still skeptical. Indeed, PoolCorp appears to ... In re Pool Corporation: Yet Another Peculiar and Peverse Section 5 Consent from the FTC
How Much Search Bias Is There?
My last two posts on search bias (here and here) have analyzed and critiqued Edelman & Lockwood’s small study on search bias. This post extends this same methodology and analysis to a random sample of 1,000 Google queries (released by AOL in 2006), to develop a more comprehensive understanding of own-content bias. As I’ve stressed, ... How Much Search Bias Is There?
Mason LEC Programs for Economics & Law Professors
The George Mason LEC has reinstituted the Economics Institute for Law Professors and the Law Institute for Economics Professors. I will be attending as faculty for the Economic Institute for Law Professors, where I will teach various aspects of microeconomic theory along with Michael Baye. The agenda for that program is available here. If you’ve ... Mason LEC Programs for Economics & Law Professors
Where have all the IPOs gone?
Ritter, Gao and Zhu ask, Where have all the IPOs Gone? Well, not to young men everywhere, but to the older men and women who run the big companies that have replaced public markets as the key venture capital exit. Here’s the abstract: During 1980-2000, an average of 311 companies per year went public in ... Where have all the IPOs gone?
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
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
Green Bag’s “The Post” Recognizes TOTM in “Best Legal Blogging”
The Green Bag recently introduced its Journal of Law, which has in turn introduced “The Post.” The Post features what the Green Bag describes as the “best in legal blogging.” This is a pretty neat idea, like most everything the Green Bag does. How does The Post select the best in legal blogging? Judges with ... Green Bag’s “The Post” Recognizes TOTM in “Best Legal Blogging”
My New Empirical Study on Defining and Measuring Search Bias
Tomorrow is the deadline for Eric Schmidt to send his replies to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s follow up questions from his appearance at a hearing on Google antitrust issues last month. At the hearing, not surprisingly, search neutrality was a hot topic, with representatives from the likes of Yelp and Nextag, as well as Expedia’s ... My New Empirical Study on Defining and Measuring Search Bias
Welcome Baby 7B!
According to the United Nations, sometime around Halloween a newborn baby will push the world’s population above seven billion people. Welcome to our spectacular planet, Little One! I should warn you that not everyone will greet your arrival as enthusiastically as I. A great many smart folks on our planet—especially highly educated people in rich ... Welcome Baby 7B!
Chicago’s View on the Future of Law and Economics
A very interesting group of essays on the future of law and economics by ten University of Chicago professors. It is especially interesting in light of the attempt to revitalize law and economics in Chicago. The essays exhibit a great diversity in views of what lies in store for the future of law and economics ... Chicago’s View on the Future of Law and Economics
