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Marshall Steinbaum

Marshall Steinbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah.
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly...
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Antitrust and Competition

Policy Failure: The Role of “Economics” in AT&T-Time Warner and American Express

The recent AT&T and Amex decisions showcase the pitfalls of considering antitrust cases solely on the basis of economic analysis and may have the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust in the Labor Market: Protectionist, or Pro-Competitive?

Redirecting antitrust enforcement to confront monopsony power would be a substantial departure from the way it has been conducted in recent decades, but just...
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Antitrust and Competition

Monopsony Takes Center Stage

Bringing the powerful weapons the federal competition authorities have to bear on the problem of monopsony would be a substantial, but necessary departure from recent...
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Rent seeking

One Happy Byproduct of 2016: An Overdue Tax Policy Debate

Rich people are much richer than they used to be in large part because they pay much less tax than they used to. This—not...
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Antitrust and Competition

What Role for Antitrust in the Era of Rising Inequality? The Importance of Power in Supply Chains

Concentration of power in supply chains is a prime mechanism by which dominant companies consolidate power and profits. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was...
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Antitrust and Competition

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

George Stigler
To mark 75 years since the passing of Henry Simons, professor of Economics and Law at the University of Chicago, ProMarket is...
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Commentary

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot
Each electoral system creates specific incentives to (mis)allocate government resources. Would putting the National Popular Vote (NPV) in lieu of the Electoral...
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Antitrust and Competition

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong, Andrey Fradkin
A new paper shows that platform mergers can harness network effects at the cost of reducing the platform differentiation that users value. 
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Economic History Series

Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner Understood That Competition Regulates Markets

Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino A. Candela
Economists Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in microeconomic analysis and public policy beginning with their respective work in...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Leemore Dafny
Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve...
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Antitrust and Competition

Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?

Manav Raj
A new paper finds that when interparty competition in state legislatures is high, well-connected and influential incumbent firms are best able to...
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Corporate Governance

No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data

Jens Frankenreiter, Cathy Hwang, Yaron Nili, Eric Talley
Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance....
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