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Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Ken Buck on the Need for Antitrust Reform: “Big Corporate America Scares People”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Republican congressman Ken Buck explains why antitrust enforcement is so crucial to the US economy and American democracy, expands on...
Antitrust and Competition

New Data Shows the Rise of Corporate Concentration in the US in the Past 100 Years

Yueran Ma
New research observing 100 years of concentration in economic activities and investment in research and development shows that the dominance of large businesses has...
Antitrust and Competition

Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow
To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and encourage adversarial...
Antitrust and Competition

Inflation, Corporate Power, and the Forgotten New Deal

Erik Peinert
A forgotten aspect of the New Deal is that it took place amid inflation and rising prices. Contemporary debates over inflation and whether corporate greed has a...
Antitrust and Competition

Is It Better to Address the Apple-Google App Store Duopoly Through Antitrust or Regulation? 

Giuseppe Colangelo
A new paper analyzes antitrust investigations and private litigation initiated against the Google and Apple app stores, exploring how the main anticompetitive practices within...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy

Maurice E. Stucke
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more competition as...
Antitrust and Competition

How Antitrust Can Better Regulate Thin Labor Markets

Hiba Hafiz
Thin markets, characterized by a small number of participants and low transaction volumes, create particular problems for antitrust enforcers. Hiba Hafiz explores the incoherent,...
Antitrust and Competition

How Practical Are Biden’s Proposals to Promote Labor Market Competition?

James Traina
A new report from the Biden administration lays out ways to increase competition in US labor markets. Will they work? A Biden administration report, published...
Antitrust and Competition

The Economic Costs of Common Ownership

Florian Ederer
A new empirical study attempts to estimate the economy-wide welfare costs of common ownership. The authors find that they are large and have risen...
Antitrust and Competition

Stigler Conversation: How the Chinese Government Thinks About Big Tech

ProMarket writers
A Stigler Center discussion between Ling Chen (Johns Hopkins) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), moderated by Wall Street Journal journalist Lingling...
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