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Antitrust and Competition

A New Browser Extension Aims to Bring Transparency to Big Tech Funding

Jana Kasperkevic
As Congress prepares to debate a series of new antitrust bills​, the​ Big Tech Funding browser extension encourages lawmakers to be mindful...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech’s Tightening Grip On Internet Speech

Gregory M. Dickinson
Social media platforms have so transformed American life that many now view online speech as a right of citizenship—a right to be...
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Antitrust and Competition

The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact

Michael Gofman, Zhao Jin
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

Cristina Caffarra, Johnny Ryan
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital...
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Antitrust and Competition

In FTC vs. Facebook, the Government Lost the First Round. It Could Still Win the Fight.

John Newman
Despite some compelling allegations, a federal judge dismissed the FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook due to the agency’s failure to explain how...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should Google Still be Allowed to Crown the Kings in Digital Markets?

Johannes Persch
Google search is continuously evolving into a full service provider, directly selecting and presenting the information that we are looking for. At...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why the FTC Antitrust Case Against Facebook Was Dismissed

Herbert Hovenkamp
Many of the problems with the FTC complaint against Facebook that was dismissed in court last month appear to be fixable. However,...
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Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Cicilline’s Nondiscrimination Bill Would Offer a Lifeline to Independent App Developers

Hal Singer
Contrary to the naysayers, the American Choice and Innovation Online Act won’t result in naked iPhones or iPhones cluttered with hundreds of...
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Antitrust and Competition

The House’s Recent Spate of Antitrust Bills Would Change Big Tech as We Know It

Randy Picker
If enacted, the five bills that were introduced in the House this month would represent the most dramatic statutory changes to US...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Tame the Tech Giants: Reverse the Burden of Proof in Merger Reviews

Tommaso Valletti
Most tech acquisitions are approved without a hitch, despite growing evidence that they bring little benefit, because regulators are waging an uphill...
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Buchanan’s Samaritan’s Dilemma

Alain Marciano
The Samaritan’s dilemma is not only about the detrimental effects help can have on the beneficiaries. As James Buchanan explained in his...
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How Will the FTC Evaluate Vertical Mergers?

Carl Shapiro, Herbert Hovenkamp
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent withdrawal of its 2020 vertical merger guidelines is flatly incorrect as a matter of microeconomic theory and...
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Antitrust and Competition

Announcing the Participants in the Fall 2021 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
This month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Romania, Ukraine, Slovenia, and the United...
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The Roots of America’s Competition Revolution

William E. Kovacic
Proponents of the current transformation in America’s competition policy managed to shape legislative reform proposals, push public antitrust agencies to boost enforcement, and successfully...
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Looks Can Be Deceiving: Ronald Coase and the Chicago School

Steven Medema
Ronald Coase is typically thought of as one of the Chicago School’s brightest lights. But Coase’s relationship with Chicago was always an...
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A New Browser Extension Aims to Bring Transparency to Big Tech Funding

Jana Kasperkevic
As Congress prepares to debate a series of new antitrust bills​, the​ Big Tech Funding browser extension encourages lawmakers to be mindful...
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What Are They Hiding? What Firms Don’t Want Us to Know About Their Economic Development Incentives

Nathan Jensen, Calvin Thrall
State and local governments offer firms all kinds of incentives in hopes of spurring local economic development. New research finds that a...
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