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Court economist pokes huge potential holes in Epic economist’s argument.

You’ll have to scroll down in our Epic v. Google StoryStream until I have time to go find the link, but Dr. Rose is showing up Dr. Bernheim’s earlier ideas here.

She says it’s “problematic to assume that Google will go back to the behavior that a jury found violated the antitrust laws” after the current three-year injunction ends, and that Epic could simply come back to the court to say so if it does, and perhaps ask for a three-year extension after the first three years are up. She’s also not sure why Google wouldn’t revert to bad behavior after six years if we’re assuming it would do so after three.

She says the court-ordered technical committee between Google and Epic can enact the other ideas in the settlement if they want. She also says that “decades of analysis in rate regulation” show that Google lowering its app store fees are not a substitute for creating a competitive market.

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