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Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality

Over the past four decades, the United States has seen rising market power, slowing productivity growth, and deepening wealth inequality. In new research, Giammario...

Would Content Collusion Among Social Media Companies Be Such a Bad thing?

Mark MacCarthy writes that the case law supports Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson’s charge that collaboration by social media companies on content moderation practices would be anticompetitive collusion. However, the author argues that open and transparent cooperation might actually benefit a troubled internet, and Congress should consider carving out a content-neutral antitrust exemption for platforms in the way it has in the past for broadcast networks.

Lessons From General Electric Show Why We Need a Merger Cap

In new research, Carl T. Bogus uses General Electric as a case study to argue that regulators should prohibit companies that have reached a certain size from growing through mergers and acquisitions due to more common inefficiencies and their outsized harms to stakeholders and society.

For My Enemies, Tariffs; For My Friends, Exemptions

New research from Veljko Fotak, Hye Seung Grace Lee, William Megginson, and Jesus Salas shows that the United States tariff exemption process during the...

Antitrust from Trump to Biden to Trump

The new Trump administration’s antitrust leaders are unexpectedly maintaining the Biden administration’s enforcement priorities, including the 2023 Merger Guidelines. Eric Posner explains why this...

The False Crisis Pushing Delaware to Surrender Shareholder Rights

Delaware lawmakers are being pressured to pass SB 21, a bill that would weaken shareholder protections and reduce judicial oversight of corporations. Alan Jagolinzer,...

New Research Shows the Revolving Door Costs Taxpayers Billions

New research by Logan Emery and Mara Faccio systematically maps the movement of former regulators into the private sector and assesses its impact on...

Teaching Bezos a Lesson in Free Markets

Luigi Zingales invites guest contributors to the Washington Post’s op-ed pages to boycott the opinion section in response to the recent decision by the...

ProMarket is the Place for Debate

Brooke Fox writes about ProMarket as a digital space where intellectual debate can take place without the influence of special interests. Who should control the...

Concentration in Social Media Undermines Product Design Quality and User Experience

Alissa Cooper and Zander Arnao argue that a lack of competition in social media has allowed dominant platforms to design algorithms to maximize for...

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