James C. Cooper

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

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A Comparative Study of United States and European Union Approaches to Vertical Policy

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-11
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Compass Lexecon and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Behavioral Economics: Implications for Regulatory Behavior

Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
James C. Cooper and William E. Kovacic
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Washington University - Law School
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administrative law, antitrust, asymmetric, Bennett, competition, competitiveness, confirmation bias, endowment effect, Farina, Ginsburg, Jolls, Klick, Korobkin, loss aversion, market, merger, Mitchell, Moore, myopia, public choice, regulation, Rachlinski, Rinner, Stone, Stucke, Tor, Ulen, Wright

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Vertical Restrictions and Antitrust Policy: What About the Evidence?

Competition Policy International, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2005
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Compass Lexecon and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-12
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Compass Lexecon and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Vertical Antitrust Policy as a Problem of Inference

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-12
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2005
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Michael Vita
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Compass Lexecon and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Theory and Practice of Competition Advocacy at the Ftc

Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 1091-1112, 2005
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Oct 2004
Todd J. Zywicki, James C. Cooper and Paul A. Pautler
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics
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Public Choice, Rent-Seeking, Antitrust Law & Policy

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Alcohol, Antitrust, and the 21st Amendment: An Empirical Examination of Post and Hold Laws

International Review of Law and Economics 32 (2012) 379– 392
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2012
James C. Cooper and Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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ABC, Albaek, alcoholism, cartel, Costco, collusion, drunk driving, exclusive dealing arrangements, federalism, franchise, most-favored customer, New York, preemption, price-fixing, Sherman Act, state action, TFWS Inc. v. Schaefer, teen drinking, temperance, three-tier system, 21st amendment

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The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, Jules Polonetsky, Evan Selinger & Omer Tene, eds., Cambridge University Press (2017), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jan 2017
James C. Cooper and Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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antitrust, consumer welfare, cost-benefit analysis, deceptive practices, digital economy, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, law and economics, privacy

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Separation Anxiety

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 01, 2017
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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big data, market efficiency, predictive privacy harms, privacy, pooling, regulation, separation

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Privacy and Antitrust: Underpants Gnomes, the First Amendment, and Subjectivity

George Mason Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2014
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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advertising, Bing, CNN, currency, databases, DoubleQuick, downloads, email, FTC, Federal Trade Commission, Fox News, free, Gmail, J. Thomas Rosch, monetization, MySpace, network, Pamela Jones Harbour, Peter Swire, profits, public choice, Robert Lande, search results, Tara Koslov, targeted, tracking

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Behavioral Economics and Its Meaning for Antitrust Agency Decision Making

Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, No. 4, Fall 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Feb 2013
James C. Cooper and William E. Kovacic
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Washington University - Law School
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Amos Tversky, Bayesian, Cass Sunstein, Christine Jolls, Coasian, Continental T.V., Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, confirmation, Daniel Kahneman, David Laibson, Farina, Hayek, Korobkin, Rachlinski, regulators, Ronald Coase, Schwinn, status quo bias, Stefano DellaVigna, Ulen, Ulrike Malmendier, Xavier Gabaix

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A Return to Antitrust Populism?

The Antitrust Source, V. 16, No. 4, 2017
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 23 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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antitrust, competition, consumer protection, populism

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Anonymity, Autonomy, and the Collection of Personal Data: Measuring the Privacy Impact of Google's 2012 Privacy Policy Change

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-06
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Feb 2017
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Search, Google, Privacy, Anonymity, Information

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Competition Advocacy: Lessons for Latin American Competition Policy

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 07-07
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Todd J. Zywicki and James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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competition, Economic Theory of Regulation, antitrust

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A Chip Off the Old Block or a New Direction for Payment Card Security? The Law & Economics of the U.S. Transition to EMV

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-09
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019
James C. Cooper and Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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cardholder verification method, chip technology, consumer payment, credit cards, CVM, EMV, fraud, law & economics, payment card security, PIN

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Prices and Price Dispersion in Online and Offline Markets for Contact Lenses

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 283, Revised: November 2006 (Original Version: April 2006)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2006
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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contact lenses, price dispersion, search costs, Internet, e-commerce, electronic commerce

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Does Price Discrimination Intensify Competition? Implications for Antitrust

Antitrust Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 327-373, 2005
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 24 Jul 2014
James C. Cooper, Luke M. Froeb, Daniel P. O'Brien and Steven Tschantz
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Compass Lexecon and Vanderbilt University - Department of Mathematics
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antitrust, competition, consumer location, market power, merger, monopoly, oligopoly, spatial competitors, spatial price discrimination, Robinson-Patman Act

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Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the Regulatory Environment for Platforms

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 15-58
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2016
Joshua D. Wright, Koren Wong-Ervin, Douglas H. Ginsburg, Bruce H. Kobayashi and James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Antitrust Partner at Axinn, Veltrop, & Harkrider LLP, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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European Commission, two-sided markets, platform, economics, public choice, regulatory capture, privacy, data security, regulation, survey methodology

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State Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Laws: An Economic and Empirical Analysis

Antitrust Law Journal , Vol. 81, No. 3, 2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2018
James C. Cooper and Joanna Shepherd
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and Emory University School of Law
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Consumer Protection, CPAs, Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Fraud, FTC, Litigation, Unfair Trade Practices

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There is a Time to Keep Silent and a Time to Speak, the Hard Part is Knowing Which is Which: Striking the Balance between Privacy Protection and the Flow of Health Care Information

Michigan Telecomm and Technology Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 279, 2010
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2019
Daniel J. Gilman and James C. Cooper
Federal Trade Commission and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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health information technology, HIT, telemedicine, privacy, identity theft, electronic health, preemption, network effects, regulatory barriers

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The Perils of Excessive Discretion: The Elusive Meaning of Unfairness in Section 5 of the FTC Act

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 87-132, April 2015
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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antitrust, competition policy, markets, industrial organization, Section 5, Federal Trade Commission, administrative law, law & economics, public choice, Google, standard essential patents

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U.S. Convergence with International Competition Norms: Antitrust Law and Public Restraints on Competition

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 1555-1610, August 2010
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
James C. Cooper and William E. Kovacic
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Washington University - Law School
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Adam Smith, BRIC, Brazil, cartel, China, code, collaboration, containment, DOJ, Department Justice, ETR, economic, FDA, FTC, Federal Trade Commission, Hatch-Waxman Act, immunity, India, Joe, Joseph Brodley, nations, Noerr-Pennington, register, regulations, Russia, theory, Timothy Muris, wealth

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Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, on the Canadian Competition Bureau's White Paper, 'Big Data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada'

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-44
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Dec 2017
John M. Yun, James C. Cooper, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Douglas H. Ginsburg, Joshua D. Wright and Tad Lipsky
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, barrier to entry, big data, data, differential pricing, economics, firm size, innovation, privacy, regulation

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Information & Settlement: Empirical Evidence on Daubert Rulings and Case Outcomes

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 16-23
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 May 2016 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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civil procedure, Daubert, discovery, duration analysis, expert witness, litigation

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The Costs of Regulatory Redundancy: Consumer Protection Oversight of Online Travel Agents and the Advantages of Sole FTC Jurisdiction

North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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air travel, consumer protection, data security, Department of Trade, DOT, e-commerce, efficiency, enforcement, Federal Trade Commission, hotels, online travel agent, privacy, regulation, regulatory capture, rental cars

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Does Prohibiting 'Lock-In' Improve Aftermarket Outcomes? Evidence from the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Sep 2012
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Lock-in, Hold-up, Antitrust, Aftermarkets, Contact Lenses, E-commerce, Search Costs

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Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 May 2020
Jonathan Barnett, Michael R. Baye, James C. Cooper, Daniel A. Crane, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Richard Epstein, Deborah Garza, Thomas W. Hazlett, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Benjamin Klein, Jonathan Klick, Thomas A. Lambert, Tad Lipsky, Geoffrey A. Manne, Scott E. Masten, Maureen Ohlhausen, James Rill, Jan Rybnicek, Vernon L. Smith, David Teece, Robert Willig, Joshua D. Wright and John M. Yun
University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, University of Michigan Law School, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, New York University School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Clemson University, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Missouri - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Baker Botts LLP, Independent, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Institute for Business Innovation, Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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antitrust, antitrust law, antitrust agencies, antitrust enforcement, consumer welfare, market power

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Conflicts of Interest on Expert Committees: The Case of FDA Drug Advisory Committees

University of Connecticut School of Business Research Paper No. 17-02
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
James C. Cooper and Joseph H. Golec
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Connecticut - Department of Finance
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Conflicts of Interest, Expert Committees, FDA, pharmaceuticals

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Testimony on the 'State of Competition in the Digital Marketplace' before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 20-13
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Apr 2020
James C. Cooper, Joshua D. Wright and John M. Yun
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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digital sector, digital platforms, digital marketplace, antitrust, anticompetitive conduct, anticompetitive transactions, monopoly power, monopolization, consumer welfare standard

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Antitrust Liability for Licensing Boards After North Carolina Dental: Antitrust Preemption as a Penalty Default?

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Jun 2016
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Antitrust, Federalism, FTC, North Carolina Dental, Occupational Licensing, Preemption, State Action

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Comment on FTC Strategic Plan 2014-2018

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-53
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Oct 2013
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Bureau of Consumer Protection, consumer harm, data security, economics, enforcement, Federal Trade Commission Act, net impact, non-enforcement, Pfizer, privacy, Section 5, unfair practices

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A Chip Off the Old Block or a New Direction for Payment Card Security? Chips, Pins, and the Law and Economics of Payment Card Fraud

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Apr 2018
James C. Cooper and Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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credit cards, cardholder verification, chip technology, consumer payment, CVM, EMV, fraud, law & economics, payment card security, PIN, joint care, data security

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Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law & Economics Scholars, Ohio v. American Express

University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 May 2019
Geoffrey A. Manne, Babette Boliek, James C. Cooper, Richard Epstein, Thomas W. Hazlett, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Jonathan Klick, Thomas A. Lambert, Tad Lipsky, David Teece, Joshua D. Wright and Christopher S. Yoo
International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, New York University School of Law, Clemson University, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Missouri - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Institute for Business Innovation, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Antitrust, ICLE Affiliate Publication

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State Licensing Boards, Antitrust, and Innovation

Regulatory Transparency Project (2017), forthcoming The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2019
James C. Cooper, Elyse Dorsey and Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, Government of the United States of America - Department of Justice and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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antitrust, state licensing boards, occupational licensing, state action doctrine, Teladoc, innovation

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Why Does the FDA Overrule Its Expert Committees’ Recommendations?

University of Connecticut School of Business Research Paper No. 19-15
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Joseph H. Golec and James C. Cooper
University of Connecticut - Department of Finance and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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FDA, Drug Advisory Committees, Drug Approval Process, Drug Regulation

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Equitable Monetary Relief Under the FTC Act: An Opportunity for a Marginal Improvement

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 20-06
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Mar 2020
James C. Cooper and Bruce H. Kobayashi
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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FTC, Remedies, Consumer Protection, Advertising, Sanctions

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An Enquiry Meet for Professional Regulation: Lessons from PolyGram

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 17-49
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Dec 2017
James C. Cooper
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Antitrust, State Action, FTC, North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, Rule of Reason, Quick Look, Preemption, Occupational Licensing, State Regulation