ReachX Breakfast - NYU Stern Professor Larry White

Location: The Arts Club (40 Dover Street) 

Topics that will be discussed

• Why is the EU taking a harder line with respect to tech companies?
• What is a sensible approach to competition policy vis-a-vis the large tech companies?
• Does competition policy have a role to play in dealing with the privacy issues that surround the large tech companies?
• What about special treatment for quot national champion quot companies?
• Has merger enforcement been too lax in the US In the EU In the UK? Is the US tradition of private treble-damage lawsuits worth exploring for the EU/UK?
• Is the US tradition of criminalizing hard-core cartel/price-fixing cases worth exploring for the EU/UK?

Biography

Lawrence White has been with New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business for more than 40 years. His primary research areas of interest include financial regulation, antitrust, network industries, international banking and applied microeconomics.

Professor White has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading journals in economics, finance, and law.

He is the author of The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation, among other books, and he is the co-editor with John Kwoka of the 7th of edition of The Antitrust Revolution. He contributed chapters to the NYU Stern books on the financial crisis - Restoring Financial Stability and Regulating Wall Street. 

He is the co-author with Stern's Viral Acharya, Matthew Richardson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance. He co-edited and contributed to Stern's recent book Regulating Wall Street: CHOICE Act vs. Dodd-Frank.