Category: Financial Regulation
An Instant Classic: Rochet & Tirole, Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets
Richard Schmalensee’s introduction to the classic Rochet & Tirole article, Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets, as published in Competition Policy International, January (2015): The p... Read More
The Impact of the U.S. Debit-Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare
David Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce have a new article published by Oxford’s Journal of Competition Law and Economics. The following is an abstract, Download an HDL or PDF print of the c... Read More
The Sad State of the Union
This article was originally posted on Defining Ideas, Hoover Institution, Stanford University on January 26, 2015. In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama painted a rosy picture of h... Read More
New paper on Efficient Spectrum Management, by GlobalEcon Director Juan Delgado
Under the current uncertainty about future spectrum demand and given the high costs involved by releasing frequencies from broadcasting to mobile broadband, adopting early decisions on the reallocatio... Read More