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The Role of the State

Antitrust and Competition

Should We Leave Public Resource Allocation to the Experts? Glen Weyl Responds to Paul Milgrom

Glen Weyl
Glen Weyl, Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist, responds to Paul Milgrom’s criticisms of his recent ProMarket piece...
Antitrust and Competition

Was the 2017 FCC Spectrum Auction a Success—or a Disappointing Failure?

Asher Schechter
In a post published on his company’s website, Stanford professor Paul Milgrom responded to the recent ProMarket pieces by Glen Weyl and Stefano Feltri...
Antitrust and Competition

AT&T’s Treatment of HBO Max Sparks Calls for Net Neutrality Rules. But Is Sector-Specific Regulation the Right Solution?

Hal Singer
Not all forms of self-preferencing should be banned, but we do need a standard by which to evaluate allegations of anticompetitive self-preferencing. Congress should...
Antitrust and Competition

Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger

ProMarket writers
As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of Covid-19 with...
Antitrust and Competition

Paid to Show the Drug Works: Why “Blind” Clinical Trials for New Drugs are Far Less Blind Than They Should Be

Jessie Wrobel
New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones. Economists love health care because it...
Antitrust and Competition

It Is Such a Small World: The Market-Design Academic Community Evolved in a Business Network

Stefano Feltri
Private equity funds such as Michael Dell's MSD Capital made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the 2017 FCC spectrum auction, thanks...
Antitrust and Competition

How Market Design Economists Helped Engineer a Mass Privatization of Public Resources

Glen Weyl
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission conducted a complex two-sided auction to reallocate spectrum from broadcasters to mobile communications companies. The way economists designed...
Antitrust and Competition

The Death of Independent Podcasting: What Spotify Is Trying to Do With the Joe Rogan Deal

Matt Stoller
Spotify is gaining power over podcast distribution by either buying production directly or striking exclusive deals, as it did with Rogan. Once it has...
Antitrust and Competition

Amazon-Owned Movie Theaters: the Next Step in Entertainment Industry Consolidation

Matt Stoller
Amazon is in talks to buy AMC Theaters, whose business model was jeopardized by the coronavirus pandemic. Other streaming companies, such as Disney and...
Antitrust and Competition

Launching the New, Improved ProMarket

ProMarket writers
We are very excited to present to you our new design for ProMarket. In addition to our usual mix of articles based on academic...
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