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Antitrust and Competition

UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”

Asher Schechter
A new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development argues: The “endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power,...
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Antitrust and Competition

Is There a Connection Between Market Concentration and the Rise in Inequality?

Asher Schechter
A Stigler Center panel debates: Is rising inequality connected to monopolies, rent-seeking, and concentration? The rise in wealth and income inequality has been at the forefront of...
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Antitrust and Competition

Market Power and Inequality: How Big Should Antitrust’s Role Be in Reducing Inequality?

Asher Schechter
Is the rise of wealth inequality in the United States related to a decline in competition? A new paper answers in the affirmative. Is the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Is More Antitrust the Answer to Rising Wealth Inequality?

Asher Schechter
University of Michigan professor Daniel Crane: “The story that somehow antitrust law is dead, that it’s been killed, is wrong. It hasn’t. It’s very...
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Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

Michael G Jacobides, Ioannis Lianos
Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited....
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Corporate Governance

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...
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Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?

Jana Kasperkevic
In an interview with ProMarket, Angela Huyue Zhang, author of a new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, discusses the motivations behind the recent...
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Antitrust and Competition

Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards

Rena Conti, Fiona Scott Morton, Adam Kroetsch, Stephen Colvill, Mark Rosenberg
Prescription drug shortages have become more common in recent years, interrupting usual medical care and increasing patient risk and system costs, but...
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Antitrust and Competition

Facebook Break-up Can Be Feasible, Efficient, and Ultimately Beneficial to Consumers

Paolo Buccirossi, Emilio Calvano, Tomaso Duso
Is the relief sought by the FTC in its case against Facebook the right way to go? In principle, yes. However, the...
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Antitrust and Competition

A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets

Nicolas Petit, Natalia Moreno Belloso
Digital markets are prone to “tipping.” Policymakers are starting to look at tipping as a market failure worthy of consideration. But as...
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Corporate Governance

The Most Famous Article on the Theory of the Firm is Widely Misunderstood

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s famous 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article has been cited nearly 100,000 times and is often regarded...
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