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The Role of the State

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...
Antitrust and Competition

The Price of Democracy: a Webinar with Julia Cagé, Andrea Prat, and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
At this trying time, there is a particularly high demand for reliable and trustworthy information. To address this demand by Booth students, alumni, faculty,...
Antitrust and Competition

Much of Antitrust Law Today Is Based on Unsupported or Demonstrably False Economic Theories. Will Economists Take Heed?

Sandeep Vaheesan
Many of the economic assumptions of contemporary antitrust law are unsupported or false, as the executive branch and judiciary have remade the law in...
Antitrust and Competition

How Airline Alliances Convinced Regulators That Collusion Reduces Prices

Hubert Horan
The Department of Transportation granted antitrust immunity to Atlantic alliances that reduced competition on the basis of a single paper written by a United...
Antitrust and Competition

Political Economy of Covid-19: Surveillance and the Future of Privacy

ProMarket writers
Join the Stigler Center on Monday, May 11, for a conversation with The Markup’s editor-in-chief Julia Angwin and University of Chicago Law professor Lior Strahilevitz,...
Antitrust and Competition

Here’s How Covid-19 Is Boosting Monopolization and Market Power

Matt Stoller
Monopolization and consolidation can happen for what seem to be good, or least necessary, reasons. How we respond as a society depends on how...
Antitrust and Competition

How Alliances Carriers Established a Permanent Cartel

Hubert Horan
American carriers faced the post 9/11 demand shock, while the European intercontinental flag carriers were facing increased competition in the Middle East and Asia....
Antitrust and Competition

The Airline Industry’s Post-2004 Consolidation Reversed 30 Years of Successful Pro-Consumer Policies

Hubert Horan
A small number of intercontinental carriers recaptured control of industry oversight in Washington and Brussels to convert the world’s most important markets from robust...
Antitrust and Competition

Using Regulation to Dismantle Powerful Corporate Pyramids

Assaf Hamdani
Evidence from the United States, Japan, Korea, and Israel shows that to successfully curb the influence of large corporate entities, it is important to...
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