Past Learnings
The Economists’ Onion
This piece in the Past Learnings Series is based on a hitherto unpublished internal Regulatory Policy Institute Paper dating from 2012.
August 7, 2024
Competition
Past Learnings
Why competition? 250 years of learning and forgetting in Political Economy
The notion that promoting competition is a Good Thing has become a consistent theme in economic policymaking in recent decades, accompanied by an implication that “the more of it the better” should be a presumptive policy stance. In contrast, very many members of the public appear to find these propositions far from obvious, not least those who are owners of, or workers for, business enterprises.
June 17, 2024
Past Learnings
Fairness, the Ultimatum Game and Public Policy
The notion of ‘fairness’ is widely referenced in public policymaking and enforcement, but with no settled meaning. What we see is incoherent application of the notion across economic contexts, a form of policy disorder with which we are well familiar. Moreover, the disorder (‘entropy’) appears to be increasing over time.
June 17, 2024
Documents
Regulation and competition with captive customers
Delivered as part of ‘The discovery, assessment and use of evidence in regulatory and competition law decision making’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2018
October 24, 2018
Materials from Conferences
Cognitive biases in the discovery and assessment of evidence in competition law cases
Delivered as part of ‘The discovery, assessment and use of evidence in regulatory and competition law decision making’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2018
September 25, 2018
Documents
September 26, 2017
Materials from Conferences
Digital markets and new challenges
Delivered as part of ‘In a period of great disturbance and volatility’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2017
September 26, 2017
Documents
Pandora’s box of online ills: We should turn to technology and market driven solutions before imposing regulation or using competition law
Delivered as part of ‘In a period of great disturbance and volatility’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2017
September 26, 2017
Documents
“Better to travel hopefully than to arrive?” The Reform of UK Competition law 1991-2016
Delivered as part of ‘The evolution of UK regulatory policy in retrospect: What has worked well? What hasn’t? What can be learned from experience?’, Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2016
September 13, 2017
Documents
How well is competition policy and law coping with its challenges?
Delivered as part of ‘Too busy to think’, Annual Westminster Conference 2017
May 3, 2017