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Hal Singer

Hal Singer is a managing director of Econ One and an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. He is also the co-author of the e-book The Need for Speed: A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century (Brookings Press 2013), and co-author of the book Broadband in Europe: How Brussels Can Wire the Information Society (Kluwer/Springer Press 2005). He is a recipient of the 2018 Antitrust Enforcement Award from the American Antitrust Institute for his work In Re Lidoderm Antitrust Litigation.
Antitrust and Competition

Neoliberal Economists Are Giving Biden Bad Advice on Inflation

Hal Singer
To spare the economy from the pain of further interest rate hikes, the President should aggressively pursue anticompetitive conduct by companies in concentrated industries...
Antitrust and Competition

Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Reply to Hovenkamp and Shapiro

Hal Singer
The Federal Trade Commission’s now-abandoned 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines were not some ideal economic document that the FTC foolishly disregarded; rather, they failed spectacularly...
Antitrust and Competition

Beefing Up Merger Enforcement by Banning Merger Remedies

Hal Singer
The unraveling of the T-Mobile/Sprint remedy continues a trend of failed merger consent decrees. One solution, proposed by two antitrust scholars, is to ban...
Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Cicilline’s Nondiscrimination Bill Would Offer a Lifeline to Independent App Developers

Hal Singer
Contrary to the naysayers, the American Choice and Innovation Online Act won’t result in naked iPhones or iPhones cluttered with hundreds of preinstalled apps. On...
Antitrust and Competition

Fixing a Broken Antitrust Regime

Hal Singer
In her new book Antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar explains the origins of US antitrust law, diagnoses how the nation got derailed from the legislative...
Antitrust and Competition

Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup

Hal Singer
The dominant platforms have proven themselves to be ungovernable. Behavioral remedies, especially those that require continuous oversight, might be pushed aside. The only issue...
Antitrust and Competition

There Are Lots of Competition Problems on the Internet. Parler’s Takedown Is Not One of Them.

Hal Singer
Parler’s antitrust case against Amazon is doomed, and there is no basis for Congress to impose any special duties on Amazon to deal with...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook Could Be Heading Towards a Breakup

Hal Singer
Assuming Facebook’s acquisitions can be shown to have eliminated emerging rivals, reversing those acquisitions via divestiture—“the most important of antitrust remedies”—is the logical place...
Antitrust and Competition

The Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Has Charted a Course for President-Elect Biden: He Should Follow It

Hal Singer
Real antitrust reform of the kind offered by the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is needed to assist enforcers in precisely the types of competitive harms...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

Hal Singer
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly platforms.  When the...
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