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Antitrust and Competition

Larry Summers Cautions Antitrust Regulators Against Broad-Brush Policy

Brooke Fox
In a wide-ranging interview with ProMarket, Summers expands on recent criticism of top antitrust enforcement officials, efforts to stymie Big Tech, monopsony, and the...
Antitrust and Competition

Q&A With FTC Chair Lina Khan: “The Word ‘Efficiency’ Doesn’t Appear Anywhere in the Antitrust Statutes”

Guy Rolnik
FTC Chair Lina Khan sat down with Guy Rolnik to discuss changes in governmental posture toward antitrust enforcement, her goals as head of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?

Einer Elhauge
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer welfare standard...
Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the rapidly growing...
Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the Reagan Administration. A...
Antitrust and Competition

How Europe Can Enforce the Digital Markets Act Effectively 

Alexandre de Streel
As the European Commission gets ready to embark on the complicated task of implementing the recently agreed-upon Digital Market Act, which would regulate Big...
Antitrust and Competition

The Passive Mechanisms of Common Ownership

Anna Tzanaki
A new paper explores the conundrum that common ownership poses for antitrust enforcers and competition and corporate scholars and sheds light on the distinctive...
Antitrust and Competition

A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun?

Herbert Hovenkamp
A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo, as well...
Antitrust and Competition

DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter: “We Are Making It Very Clear: We’re Going to Hold Individuals Accountable”

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, explains why he believes that the...
Antitrust and Competition

A Richard Posner and George Stigler Memo: “Throttling Back on Antitrust: A Practical Proposal for Deregulation”

ProMarket writers
A 1980s memo from Richard Posner and George J. Stigler to President-elect Ronald Reagan sheds light on their policy advocation for the President's antitrust...
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