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The Role of the State

Antitrust and Competition

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

George Stigler
To mark 75 years since the passing of Henry Simons, professor of Economics and Law at the University of Chicago, ProMarket is republishing George...
Antitrust and Competition

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Chiara Farronato
A new paper shows that platform mergers can harness network effects at the cost of reducing the platform differentiation that users value.  The societal importance...
Antitrust and Competition

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Leemore Dafny
Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve and promote...
Antitrust and Competition

Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?

Manav Raj
A new paper finds that when interparty competition in state legislatures is high, well-connected and influential incumbent firms are best able to take advantage...
Antitrust and Competition

More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market

Martin Gaynor
The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are high and...
Antitrust and Competition

Invigorating Competition in Health Care Markets: Is Rate Regulation Needed?

Tim Greaney
It now appears that market concentration may be the leading cause of America’s health care cost crisis. If the United States is going to...
Antitrust and Competition

Fixing a Broken Antitrust Regime

Hal Singer
In her new book Antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar explains the origins of US antitrust law, diagnoses how the nation got derailed from the legislative...
Antitrust and Competition

The Profit Paradox: “What’s Good for Firms Is Not Necessarily Good for the Workers”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Jan Eeckhout discusses his new book The Profit Paradox and explains how market power brings down wages, even if...
Antitrust and Competition

Let’s Not Forget George Stigler’s Lessons about Regulatory Capture

Susan E. Dudley
George Stigler’s theory of economic regulation opened our eyes to the rent-seeking that undermines the public interest. Yet many in positions to influence policy...
Antitrust and Competition

Concentration in the EU: Where It is Increasing and Why

Pauline Affeldt
Increasing concentration is not unique to the US—recent studies show that concentration is rising in Europe as well, although to a lesser extent than...
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