A Pill Everyone Can Swallow
The FDA’s proposal to modernize generic drug approvals meets with broad support.
FTC Stalls Omnicare/PharMerica Merger
Antitrust complaint filed against pharmaceutical industry deal.
A Call for a Radical New Communications Policy
The FCC should regulate like antitrust agencies, providing competition-based ex post remedies.
Regulatory Year in Review: 2011
Cost-benefit analysis, Europe’s E. coli outbreak, health care antitrust, environmental regulation, and more … as discussed in our top analysis posts from 2011.
Regulatory Year in Review: 2011
Health care reform, the Dodd-Frank Act, environmental protection, and open government are discussed in our top news posts from 2011.
FCC Staff Report Finds AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Contrary to Public Interest
AT&T calls report “obviously one-sided” and questions whether its authors were “predisposed.”
Senate Fails to Overturn the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules
New “open Internet” regulations survive congressional challenge.
Regulating Telecommunications Networks
Recent book proposes critical framework for analyzing and regulating networks.
Google Draws Attention of Senate Subcommittee
Internet executives and antitrust experts discuss the need to regulate Google.
FAA Grants Approval to Proposed Airline Slot Swap at Northeast Airports
Transaction will reshape airline makeup at LaGuardia, Reagan National airports.
House Holds Hearing on the Impact of an EU Privacy Regulation
European privacy protection raises questions about optimal level of regulation.
Justice Department Moves to Block AT&T’s Acquisition of T-Mobile
Antitrust Division argues the merger would decrease competition, increase prices.