Antitrust and Competition

Netanyahu, Trump, Nixon and the Use of Antitrust to Tame the Media

Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are waging a war against the media. Their tools of choice are the same ones used...

“There Is No Indication That Trump Is Pro-Competition”

A new paper by economists Steven C. Salop and Carl Shapiro explores what antitrust might look like under President Trump. In an interview with...

“Growing Evidence That Some U.S. Regulators May Value the Profits of the Incumbents They Regulate Over Consumer Welfare”

In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, we ask Fiona M. Scott Morton of Yale University about the effects of concentration in America and...

“Our Efforts to Deal With Tech Firms' Market Dominance in the U.S. Have Been an Abject Failure”

In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, Harvard economist F.M. Scherer answers questions about concentration, antitrust, tech giants, and inequality. "Antitrust agencies have not taken sufficient...

"The Exercise of Market Power Probably Contributes to Economy-Wide Inequality"

In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series on concentration in the U.S., American University law professor Jonathan Baker shares some thoughts on marker power...

"There Is Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been Rising"

Our new interview series: "Is there a concentration problem in America?" On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference that will...

Conference: Is There a Concentration Problem in America?

On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference on the question of concentration in the U.S. economy that will bring...

Antitrust, Regulation and the “Chicago School”

Antitrust authorities, no less than regulatory authorities, are vulnerable to capture by the collective interests of groups having the most salient stakes in antitrust...

“We Are Arrogant – We hold On to Our Old Beliefs on the Gains of Trade”: ProMarket Interviews Bernard Yeung, Part 3

The third and final part of ProMarket's interview with Bernard Yeung, Dean of the National University of Singapore’s business school and one of the...

“In a System with Dominance, There is Built-In Resistance to Change”: ProMarket Interviews Bernard Yeung, Part 2

In the second part of his interview with ProMarket, Bernard Yeung—one of the economists who laid the foundations of scientific research on economic power...

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