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The Role of the State

Antitrust and Competition

How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America

Matt Stoller
Big Business is going to be structuring the response to the pandemic, at least temporarily. A new generation of leaders and thinkers is not...
Antitrust and Competition

The Coronavirus Crisis Has Exposed Private Equity’s Unsustainable Business Model

Matt Stoller
Private equity portfolio companies are heavily indebted, and they aren’t generating enough cash to service debts. The steady increase in asset values since 2009...
Antitrust and Competition

Samsung and the Political Power of South Korean Chaebols: a Webinar with Sangin Park and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center’s 2020 Antitrust and Competition Conference will discuss the interconnection between monopolies and politics. Our pre-conference Webinar Series explores the extent to which firms can leverage...
Antitrust and Competition

Too Big to Jail: How Powerful Korean Executives Escape Indictment or Conviction

Sangin Park
The failures to hold the founding families of Korean conglomerates accountable for crimes undermined the rule of law and the corporation system, which are...
Antitrust and Competition

The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don’t

Matt Stoller
According to the 18th-century French banker and philosopher Richard Cantillon, who benefits when the state prints money is based on its institutional setup. In...
Antitrust and Competition

“Democracy Is Influenced by Lobbyists, That’s Why the People Also Need Someone to Lobby for Them”

Stefano Feltri
“Individuals usually don’t have enough incentive to take action, even though it is clear they will be collectively better off by taking action.” In...
Antitrust and Competition

The Populist Right Has a Plan to Take Power Away From Financiers and Challenge China

Matt Stoller
The nationalist rhetoric of the Trump administration can obscure a more sophisticated recognition by some people in the populist world that the core dynamic...
Antitrust and Competition

Zoom, Netflix, Slack: Amazon Is Behind All the Services We Use to Work From Home (and That’s a Problem)

Daniel A. Hanley
The new normal for millions of people represents a near-total dependence on Amazon’s cloud-computing operation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and places a substantial portion...
Antitrust and Competition

How Private Equity Companies Are Lobbying to Profit from The Covid-19 Economic Fallout

Matt Stoller
Private equity funds aren’t just seeking to save the investments they already have, but to get access to more capital to invest in a...
Antitrust and Competition

America’s Concentration Problem: a Webinar With Thomas Philippon, Chad Syverson, and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
Watch a Stigler Center webinar with NYU professor Thomas Philippon and Chicago Booth professor Chad Syverson on Philippon’s new book, The Great Reversal: How...
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