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Antitrust and Competition

Fixing Platform Monopoly in the Google Search Case

Herbert Hovenkamp
Google is on trial for anticompetitive behaviors designed to protect its monopoly in internet search. Herb Hovenkamp analyzes several possible remedies the presiding court and Department of Justice could pursue and suggests which ones may succeed in reinforcing competition to protect consumer interests.
Antitrust and Competition

The FTC Needs To Focus Arguments on Technological Transitions After High-Profile Losses

Joshua Gray
Joshua Gray and Cristian Santesteban argue that the Federal Trade Commission's focus in Meta-Within and Microsoft-Activision on narrow markets like VR fitness apps and consoles missed the boat on the real competition issue: the threat to future competition in nascent markets like VR platforms and cloud gaming.
Big Tech

Zero Rating Is The Free Sample In The Internet Ice Cream Store

Roslyn Layton
Why ban competitive offers in the online world when they’re allowed offline? Big tech wants plain vanilla broadband pricing because it forecloses platform competition.
Antitrust and Competition

Was Microsoft’s “Polluted Java” a presumptively legal improved product design?

Joshua Gray
Section 2 defendants often interpret the holdings of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in U.S. v Microsoft Corp...
Big Tech

How Big Tech Uses Net Neutrality To Subvert Competition

Roslyn Layton
A decade of evidence suggests that Open Internet policies have delivered the opposite effect.
Big Tech

Economists Agree That Stronger Legal Liability for Online Platforms Would Reduce Disinformation

Will Macheel
Will increasing the liability of internet platforms mitigate disinformation? Economists weighed in on the effects of limiting or repealing protections for Big Tech through a recent survey from the Forum for the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets—previously the Initiative on Global Markets—at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Antitrust and Competition

How To Handle Big Tech Acquisitions Under Uncertainty

Daniel McCuaig
The Federal Trade Commission recently failed to stop Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality company Within, while the Department of Justice is now attempting to...
Antitrust and Competition

Understanding the DOJ’s Decision To Seek a Jury Trial in the Google Ad Tech Case

Samuel Weinstein
The Department of Justice recently sued Google for conduct relating to its ad tech services, accusing the search giant of unlawful monopolization. In an...
Antitrust and Competition

Meta-Within Should Be Viewed in the Context of Meta’s Broader Efforts To Monopolize Social Networking

Brandon Nye
A California court recently denied the FTC’s motion to block the Meta-Within merger. Brandon Nye writes that the FTC could have expanded its argument...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Needs Better Models for Estimating Social Welfare in the Digital Age

Seth G. Benzell
In a forthcoming article, Seth Benzell and Felix Chang explore how antitrust regulators can use insights from a new quantitative model of Facebook that...
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