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Antitrust and Competition

GameStop, the Cantillon Effect, and America’s Corrupt Financial Plumbing

Matt Stoller
The GameStop frenzy, far from a morality tale of the people showing up Wall Street elites, should show that something is seriously off-kilter about...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?

Herbert Hovenkamp
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
Antitrust and Competition

Is There a Problem with Competition?

ProMarket writers
A Stigler Center webinar explores instances where competition turns toxic, whether antitrust policy needs reform, and potential paths forward. Is there such a thing as...
Antitrust and Competition

Taming Big Tech: What Can We Expect From Germany’s New Antitrust Tool?

Jens-Uwe Franck
Targeted at Big Tech, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms rebalances the power between the competition watchdog and those firms. Around...
Antitrust and Competition

What Is the Price of a Prescription Drug?

Robin Feldman
Due to lack of transparency and mystery rebates, which are considered trade secrets, figuring out the price of a prescription drug is devilishly difficult....
Antitrust and Competition

Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects

Randy Picker
How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers. December 2020 was an extraordinary period in US...
Antitrust and Competition

Giving Away Our Data for Free is a Market Failure

Nicholas Economides
By convincing users to give away their data for free, digital platforms have caused a market failure. This failure benefits them and harms us,...
Antitrust and Competition

Should Antitrust Promote Political Liberty? A Stigler Center Webinar Features Fukuyama, McCarty, Teachout, and Nylen

ProMarket writers
A Stigler Center panel explores the challenges of designing an antitrust enforcement regime that could contend with the political power of corporate monopolies. Should antitrust...
Antitrust and Competition

The Antitrust Cases Against Facebook And Google: In Search of a Smoking Gun

Samuel Weinstein
In the Microsoft antitrust case, Bill Gates’ emails were perhaps the government’s most compelling evidence. Now, as regulators pursue antitrust cases against Facebook and Google,...
Antitrust and Competition

False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It

Samuel Woolley
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed to foresee...
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