The Role of the State

The consumer welfare standard is used in modern antitrust enforcement to evaluate a merger between two firms. However, its original definition was corrupted in...

University of Chicago Booth/Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State 2002 Antitrust and Competition Conference “Antitrust: What’s Next?” Panel Discussion “Big Tech & Freedom of Speech” moderated by Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times with panelists Gilad Edelman of WIRED, Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University, Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University and Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University. April 21, 2022 (photo by Anne Ryan for University of Chicago)

The modernization of EU antitrust laws muddied the water with regard to the ways that antitrust authorities and courts should handle situations in which...

New research on undisclosed and unlimited political contributions, or dark money, exposes the increasing role that such funds play in U.S. elections. Undisclosed and unlimited...

Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose. In April, Matt Stoller argued that a 1980...

The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid pandemic, which...

More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A new paper...

Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in their favor. Dana...

Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused to share...

The Stigler Center, of which ProMarket is a part, recently hosted a panel discussion looking at the antitrust case against Google and discussing potential...