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Randy Picker

Randal C. Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
Antitrust and Competition

Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work

The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App...
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Antitrust and Competition

Forcing Interoperability on Tech Platforms Would Be Difficult to Do

Governments around the world seem to be on a path to turn the leading tech firms into public utilities. Interoperability is likely...
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Antitrust and Competition

Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects

How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers.
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Antitrust and Competition

Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking

Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it...
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Antitrust and Competition

Structural Separation and Self-Preferencing: What are the Right Lessons of History?

IBM’s entry into the PC market can teach us a lot about the risks involved with the sort of structural separations recommended...
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Antitrust and Competition

The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small?

Last week’s epic House hearing on online platforms raised many issues, chief among which was the question who gets to operate at...
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Antitrust and Competition

At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?

Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users...
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Antitrust and Competition

The European Commission Picks a Fight with Google Android over Business Models

UChicago Law’s Randy Picker puzzles over the rationale behind last week’s multibillion-euro fine on Google by the European Commission. While the decision makes a...
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Antitrust and Competition

With Amex Ruling, Modern IO Theory Makes Important Inroads with SCOTUS

SCOTUS Forum. In this second post in our roundtable of op-eds on the Supreme Court’s June 25 Amex decision, UChicago’s Randy Picker looks at...
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Antitrust and Competition

AT&T Shellacs the Government in Time Warner Merger Case

Professor Randy Picker of the University of Chicago Law School offers an early take on yesterday’s AT&T-Time Warner decision.     The US government got its clock...
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Inequality

Most Americans Consider Themselves Middle-Class. But Are They?

Jeffrey Wenger, Melanie Zaber
There are different ways of determining who should be considered middle-class. But there is one thing they have in common: all reveal...
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Antitrust and Competition

Barriers to Entry as Another Source of Top Income Inequality

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ProMarket Reader Survey: We Want Your Feedback

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As ProMarket enters its sixth year of operation, we would like to understand what you, our readers, like about it and what...
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Corporate Governance

What Stakeholder Capitalism Can Learn From Jensen and Meckling

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Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 article is an academic classic, but heavily criticized by stakeholder capitalists for arguing that corporate structures should be...
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Commentary

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

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Antitrust and Competition

Eliminating Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Won’t End the Georgia Political Boycott

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There are good arguments for getting rid of baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws, but the reason cited by Republican Senators angry...
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Antitrust and Competition

Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work

Randy Picker
The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App...
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