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Antitrust and Competition

The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows that Climate Action is the Newest Antitrust Frontier

Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to environmental sustainability initiatives from...
Antitrust and Competition

Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World

Filippo Lancieri
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are inadequate to...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust and Sustainability: An Introduction to an Ongoing Debate

Julian Nowag
Can sustainability play a role in antitrust enforcement? And should it? Lund University professor Julian Nowag explores the debate around that intersection of sustainability,...
Antitrust and Competition

What Economists Mean When They Say “Consumer Welfare Standard”

Leah Samuel
Though coined by academic economists, the term “consumer welfare standard” has been captured and changed by the economic school of thought known as the...
Antitrust and Competition

Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income

Amit Zac
A new working paper examines the relationship between competition policy and the decline in the labor share across the developed world and finds that...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Calls for DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter’s Recusal Are Baseless

Laurence H. Tribe
Kanter’s pre-existing commitment to aggressive antitrust enforcement, far from compromising the legitimacy of his actions, reinforces his qualifications for doing the job of Assistant...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful of actors?...
Antitrust and Competition

Countering Employer Monopsony Power With Fundamental Labor Rights

Peter Norlander
Labor policies grounded in the fundamental rights of workers can reinforce the aims of a proposed labor antitrust agenda by limiting a firm’s ability...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment

James Traina
A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers were paid...
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