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Antitrust and Competition

Of Antitrust and Patents: the Quiet Return of the Status Quo at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division

Allen Grunes
Without Senate-confirmed political leadership, the Department of Justice quietly reverts to an Obama-era policy that favors Big Tech. The consistent theme running through Makan Delrahim’s...
News

Stigler’s Interest-Group Theory of Regulation: A Skeptical Note

Cass Sunstein
As a rule, regulation is not acquired by “the industry,” and it is not designed and operated primarily for its benefit. The mechanisms behind...
Antitrust and Competition

The Durable Impact of Stigler’s Theory of Economic Regulation

Sam Peltzman
George Stigler’s “The Theory of Economic Regulation” was an early application of public choice reasoning to a practical problem—the work of regulatory agencies. It...
News

Economic Regulation After George Stigler

Filippo Lancieri
George Stigler’s “The Theory of Economic Regulation” has left a lasting impact on the academic and real-world practice of regulatory policy. Fifty years after...
News

The Texas Power Failure: How One Market Model Discovered Its Natural Limits

Eve Vogel
Relying on marginal market prices to provide the incentives for the production and delivery of electricity means that all of the biophysical things enrolled...
Antitrust and Competition

The Texas Blackouts and the Problems of Electricity Market Design

Georg Rilinger
Even in an ideal electricity market, reliability is an elusive and precarious byproduct of companies’ search for profits. Since market designers are rarely in...
Antitrust and Competition

Morale At the DOJ’s Antitrust Division Has Plummeted. Here’s How to Fix It

John Newman
The Biden administration should work to reverse the declining morale since a re-energized Antitrust Division will translate into more effective, innovative enforcement efforts.   The...
Commentary

OpenLux: Why the Era of Financial Secrecy Needs to End

José Antonio Ocampo
The #OpenLux investigation underlines that, despite undeniable progress in terms of transparency, there is still considerable work to be done in the fight against...
News

OpenLux: Despite Reform Efforts, Luxembourg Remains an “Offshore Hub in the Heart of Europe”

Antonio Baquero
Dozens of foreign citizens linked to corruption, embezzlement of public funds, organized crime, and tax crime have opened companies in Luxembourg, seemingly without raising...
News

Fahmi Quadir: “Short Sellers are Always an Easy Boogeyman”

Jana Kasperkevic
In an interview with ProMarket, short-seller Fahmi Quadir, who has shorted companies like Wirecard and Valeant, discussed the public perception of short-sellers and what...
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