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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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Antitrust and Competition

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

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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Economic History Series

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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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

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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Corporate Governance

Two Years After the Business Roundtable Statement: Pointing in the Right Direction

Margaret Blair
The 2019 Business Roundtable statement was a welcome break from the position that the nation’s top corporate CEOs took in 1997, when...
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Economic History Series

The Complicated Legacy of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile

Daniel Matamala
How did a group of Chicago-trained economists manage to turn Chile into the cradle of neoliberalism? As the country aims to move...
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Corporate Governance

“Comments for Sale”: Charitable Donations Can Lead Non-profits to Support Corporate Regulatory Agendas

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Ray Fisman, Brad Hackinen, Francesco Trebbi
A new paper shows how financial ties between companies and non-profits can subvert rulemaking process and lead to regulations that favor the...
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Antitrust and Competition

The DOJ’s “New Madison” Doctrine Disregards Both the Economics and the Law of Innovation

Herbert Hovenkamp
DOJ’s “New Madison” approach to antitrust and intellectual property law dictates that antitrust should stay out of disputes over patents, even when...
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Economic History Series

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...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

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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Antitrust and Competition

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...
Read more
Economic History Series

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...
Read more
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...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

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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