Some Reading
- Solow reviews Posner on the financial crisis
- Dave Hoffman has an excellent post summarizing the consumer bankruptcy debate in empirical legal scholarship in a series of recent papers between Rafael Pardo and a group including Bob Lawless, Angela K. Littwin, Katherine M. Porter, John Pottow, Deborah Thorne, and Elizabeth Warren
- Why is college tuition rising?
- Vertical integration in the soda industry to solve incentive conflicts (HT: Luke Froeb)
I understand virtually none of the marketing-business gobbledegook* in the PR in Luke’s post. Nonetheless, I am curious why it has taken Pepsi (and Coke) 100 years to realize that vertical integration with bottlers might make sense. What has changed about the industry recently? Anything other than the respective financial strength of the product companies and the bottlers?
*Cf. Yahoo Serious Film Festival
Comment by antitrust guy — April 23, 2009 @ 1:02 pm