Issues

Dynamics of Open Source Movements

This paper explores how open-source software projects evolve. Factors include gains in quality, contributing programmers, and users who offer customer support. Commercial firms compete with open source projects, and must choose how to price their product in response to open source offerings.

Why the Right to Data Portability Likely Reduces Consumer Welfare: Antitrust and Privacy Critique

This article analyzes the potential weaknesses of the European Union’s potential new right to data portability.

The First-Order Approach to Merger Analysis

This technical paper presents a new method for predicting the effects of a merger between two firms.

Competition and Innovation: Did Arrow Hit the Bull’s Eye?

This chapter discusses the relationship between competition policy and the rate of innovation by firms.

Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition, and Innovation

This paper shows that granting stronger intellectual property rights to technology leaders can increase innovation.

Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk

This paper suggests that the Affordable Care Act will have a positive effect on health insurance markets.

Vertical Integration and Market Structure

This paper shows how, in some settings, organizational economics and industrial organization economics are entangled.

Insulated Platform Competition

This paper presents a flexible, general model for competition in markets featuring multi-sided platforms.

Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services

This paper looks at how regulators can support more competition between different wireless services.

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

The authors use a model to suggest which sorts of industrial subsidies encourage growth.