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Antitrust and Competition

How to Mitigate the Political Impacts of Social Media and Digital Platform Concentration

ProMarket writers
Ahead of its annual conference on Digital Platforms, Markets and Democracy, the Stigler Center formed a committee to produce independent white papers that will...
Antitrust and Competition

The Political Footprint of Big Tech in Five Easy Charts

Francesco Trebbi
Big tech firms have been active in Washington since the early days of the Microsoft antitrust case, but in recent years they have increased...
Antitrust and Competition

Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe´s Quest for a New Industrial Policy

Oscar Guinea
Weakening competition policy in Europe risks creating monopolies rather than industrial champions. An interventionist style of industrial policy, one that revolves around picking winners, has...
Regulatory Capture

Debunking Deregulation: Bank Credit Guidance and Productive Investment

Josh Ryan-Collins
Deregulated banking in rich countries delivers more “investment” in speculative asset markets, not productive businesses.     In academic and policy circles there is deep mistrust of...
Antitrust and Competition

When We Outsource Privacy Compliance, We May Undermine Privacy Protection

Ari Waldman
Privacy law is currently being shaped and implemented by a new industry of third-party tech vendors. These companies code their own interpretations of privacy...
Regulatory Capture

Self-Regulation and the Video Game Industry: A New Stigler Center Case Study

ProMarket writers
A new Stigler Center case study explores questions surrounding the ESRB, the self-regulatory body responsible for assigning age and content ratings to video games.  The debate...
Regulatory Capture

Schumpeter and Brexit: Same Old Story, Different Ending

Natasha Piano
Joseph Schumpeter wouldn’t have been surprised by Brexit, but would blame British elites for putting it to a referendum and then walking away from the...
Academic Capture

“Economics Now Points Away From the Laissez-Faire Approach”

Asher Schechter
Columbia professor Suresh Naidu on Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, the new initiative he launched with Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman, and why he believes...
Antitrust and Competition

The Anticompetitive Effects of Current Capital Regulation

Matteo Benetton
Some features of the capital regulation that was designed to increase the safety of the financial system may have unintended consequences on the competitive...
Antitrust and Competition

Regulators Should Not Change the Regulatory Environment to Include Labor Market Concentration

Ben Lipsius
Research has shown that labor markets with higher levels of labor market concentration have lower wages. It does not necessarily follow that regulators should...
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