In 1996, then-Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition Bill Baer gave a speech defending the FTC’s budget titled “The […]

Matthew Lane · February 20, 2019

Stephen Houck, Special Counsel to Offit Kurman, P.A., played a prominent role in the prosecution of the government’s monopolization case […]

Stephen Houck · February 19, 2019

Algorithms have become ubiquitous in everyday life in the digital economy, from choosing the content we see on social media […]

Tawanna Lee · February 14, 2019

Avid Coca-Cola drinkers may know that in different markets, the omnipresent cola beverage tastes different.  This is true in the […]

Marianela Lopez-Galdos · December 19, 2018

The 60-Second Read: Illinois Brick is a Supreme Court case that has come to represent the proposition that indirect purchasers […]

Matthew Lane · December 13, 2018

The 60-Second Read: A commonly used identifier for a merger is “vertical or “horizontal.” A horizontal merger is one between […]

Matthew Lane · November 19, 2018

Ahead of the inaugural conference Challenges to Antitrust in a Changing Economy, co-organized by Competition Policy International (CPI) and the […]

Jacqueline Yin · November 7, 2018

The Supreme Court decision in Ohio v. American Express (“Amex”), referenced in my latest post on multi-sided markets, has spawned […]

Matthew Lane · October 10, 2018

The 60-Second Read: “Two-sided markets” is a term of art that refers to multi-sided business models, which describe a business […]

Matthew Lane · September 25, 2018

Last week, the FTC kicked off a series of hearings on competition and consumer protection in the 21st century. A […]

Project Disco · September 24, 2018