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The Role of the State

Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust’s Labor Market Problem

Eric A. Posner
A series of academic studies in recent years highlighted the fact that labor markets are often highly concentrated and that employers use anticompetitive methods...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook’s Responses to Criticism Sound Too Good to Be True

David Carroll
The Facebook Papers show how Facebook’s relentlessly positive and defiant PR messaging is not plausible anymore. Hence, a rebrand. It sounds too good to be...
Antitrust and Competition

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

Philip Hanspach
If EU policymakers are truly concerned about restoring competitiveness to digital markets, they need to adjust their expectations when it comes to data access...
Antitrust and Competition

Tech Platforms and the Antitrust Duty to Deal

Erik Hovenkamp
Why is there a widespread view that existing American antitrust law is ill-equipped to address dominant platforms that exclude or discriminate against rivals? How...
Antitrust and Competition

Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop

Jens Frankenreiter
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the EU’s GDPR)...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power

Charlotte Slaiman
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook and Google....
Antitrust and Competition

The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization

Anthea Roberts
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp...
Antitrust and Competition

Unreliable Accounts: How Regulators Fabricate Conceptual Narratives to Diffuse Criticism

Karthik Ramanna
In 2010, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis, the body that determines generally accepted accounting principles for listed corporations in...
Antitrust and Competition

Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Reply to Hovenkamp and Shapiro

Hal Singer
The Federal Trade Commission’s now-abandoned 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines were not some ideal economic document that the FTC foolishly disregarded; rather, they failed spectacularly...
Antitrust and Competition

How Will the FTC Evaluate Vertical Mergers?

Carl Shapiro
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent withdrawal of its 2020 vertical merger guidelines is flatly incorrect as a matter of microeconomic theory and is contrary...
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