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Antitrust and Competition

Paid to Show the Drug Works: Why “Blind” Clinical Trials for New Drugs are Far Less Blind Than They Should Be

Jessie Wrobel
New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones. Economists love health care because it...
Antitrust and Competition

It Is Such a Small World: The Market-Design Academic Community Evolved in a Business Network

Stefano Feltri
Private equity funds such as Michael Dell's MSD Capital made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the 2017 FCC spectrum auction, thanks...
Antitrust and Competition

How Market Design Economists Helped Engineer a Mass Privatization of Public Resources

Glen Weyl
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission conducted a complex two-sided auction to reallocate spectrum from broadcasters to mobile communications companies. The way economists designed...
Antitrust and Competition

Launching the New, Improved ProMarket

ProMarket writers
We are very excited to present to you our new design for ProMarket. In addition to our usual mix of articles based on academic...
Antitrust and Competition

Much of Antitrust Law Today Is Based on Unsupported or Demonstrably False Economic Theories. Will Economists Take Heed?

Sandeep Vaheesan
Many of the economic assumptions of contemporary antitrust law are unsupported or false, as the executive branch and judiciary have remade the law in...
Antitrust and Competition

Political Economy of Covid-19: Surveillance and the Future of Privacy

ProMarket writers
Join the Stigler Center on Monday, May 11, for a conversation with The Markup’s editor-in-chief Julia Angwin and University of Chicago Law professor Lior Strahilevitz,...
Antitrust and Competition

Here’s How Covid-19 Is Boosting Monopolization and Market Power

Matt Stoller
Monopolization and consolidation can happen for what seem to be good, or least necessary, reasons. How we respond as a society depends on how...
Covid-19

Webinar: Covid-19 and the US Health Care System

ProMarket writers
Political Economy of Covid-19 Series: Watch a Stigler Center conversation between author, journalist, and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter and Chicago Booth professor Neale...
Antitrust and Competition

Using Regulation to Dismantle Powerful Corporate Pyramids

Assaf Hamdani
Evidence from the United States, Japan, Korea, and Israel shows that to successfully curb the influence of large corporate entities, it is important to...
Money in Politics

How Barack Obama Spurred the End of America’s Public Presidential Election Funding System

Julia Cagé
Through 2004, all candidates in the general presidential election opted for public funding and reimbursement of their campaign expenses. Then, in 2008, Barack Obama...
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