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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice.” Adam Smith – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

Antitrust and Competition

The Trends and Cases That Defined European Antitrust in 2024

ProMarket writers
Three antitrust experts review the trends and cases that defined European antitrust and competition in 2024. Apple’s unfair trading conditions and the Digital Markets Act Alessia...
Antitrust and Competition

The Trends and Cases That Defined United States Antitrust in 2024

ProMarket writers
Three antitrust experts review the trends and cases that defined United States antitrust in 2024.
Commentary

A New Vision of EU Competition Policy Is Incomplete Without Central-Eastern Europe

Maciej Bernatt
The ongoing debates about the EU’s competition policy have predominantly focused on Western Europe, overlooking the dynamic growth and unique challenges of Central and Eastern Europe, writes Maciej Bernatt and Kati Cseres. This oversight risks deepening economic disparities and undermining the EU’s goals of unity, democracy, and innovation-driven growth.
Academic Capture

Trump 2.0 Will Challenge the European “Competition Safe Spaces”

Cristina Caffarra
Despite fundamental changes in the real economy, and strides in the regulation of privacy, data, and digital markets, antitrust practice and discourse in Europe are still conducted in “safe spaces” where the antitrust community resists change and remains attached to neoliberal approaches and efficiency goals. But the Trump Administration will not just signify a wholesale return to pre-NeoBrandeisian times (as many in Europe hope): indeed Europeans hiding in their “safe spaces” may well be surprised, writes Cristina Caffarra.
Commentary

The Surprising Reason Most Firms Don’t Lobby

Benjamin C.K. Egerod
Benjamin Egerod explores the information gap that prevents a majority of firms from lobbying. He argues that the lack of lobbying participation from a majority of firms creates a lopsided playing field that gives more power to those that do.
Antitrust and Competition

A Better Way To Use Ecosystems in Antitrust Analysis

Konstantinos Stylianou
Ecosystem analysis has been a popular but ill-defined concept in antitrust to identify digital products and services that operate across multiple markets. In new research, Konstantinos Stylianou and Bruno Carballa-Smichowski provide a schematic for defining ecosystems to help courts and regulators pursue more sophisticated investigations and interventions into increasingly complicated markets.
Antitrust and Competition

The False Choice between Digital Regulation and Innovation

Anu Bradford
In Europe, many regulatory authorities are debating whether to loosen regulations on tech companies so that they can catch up with their counterparts in the United States and close Europe’s innovation gap. Based on her recent article, Anu Bradford shows that this choice is a false one. She argues that rather than stringent regulation, the gap in tech innovation between the U.S. and EU can be explained by differences in their scaling opportunities, capital markets, bankruptcy laws, immigration policy, and flexibility of their labor markets.
Antitrust and Competition

Moderation Is the Cure to the Crisis in Antitrust Expertise

Barak Orbach
After several decades of obscurity, antitrust reemerged as a fashionable force in the second and third decades of the 21st century. This trend coincided with growing societal distrust of expertise. Barak Orbach explores assertions that corruption and greed drive support for lax antitrust enforcement policies, and that trustbusting zeal is a marker of intellectual integrity. He argues that intellectual integrity and sound public policy require the moderate, technocratic approaches that society heavily discounts.
Commentary

The U.S. Must Drive Forward on EVs, Not Back Up

Susan Helper
Recent negative news on the production of electric vehicles in the United States call into question the government’s industrial policy boosting Detroit’s efforts to go green. Susan Helper writes that not only have there been significant benefits from President Joe Biden’s industrial policies, but promoting the production and adoption of electric vehicles remains essential to achieving national decarbonization targets and increasing resilience, innovation, and national security
Antitrust and Competition

Multi-Market Balancing in a New Antitrust Paradigm

Randy Stutz
Randy Stutz writes that the Biden administration has recalibrated antirust policy by devoting more equal enforcement attention to competition in buyers’ markets and sellers’ markets, thereby promoting the welfare of both suppliers and consumers. The shift raises questions about whether courts should engage in “multi-market balancing”—the weighing of harms in one market against benefits in a different market—when the interests of suppliers and consumers diverge.
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