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Antitrust and Competition

“Facebook Is Unaccountable to Shareholders, to its Users, to Government”

Asher Schechter
At the Stigler Center’s annual competition conference, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called for the unwinding of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions and the creation...
Antitrust and Competition

When American Capitalism Meant Equality

Matt Stoller
Americans used to have a relatively egalitarian view of markets. How did they come to accept extreme inequality as an innate part of their...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect Competition and Consumers in Digital Markets

ProMarket writers
While some markets may self-correct, rapid self-correction in markets dominated by large digital platforms is unlikely. The economy and market structure subcommittee of the...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Address the Privacy and Security Challenges Posed by Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The idiosyncrasies of the American approach to regulation have left the world’s largest economy ill-equipped to protect consumers and guide firms when it comes...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect the News Media in the Age of Digital Platforms

ProMarket writers
Digital platforms present a new formidable threat to the news media that market forces will not correct if left to their own devices. The...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Mitigate the Political Impacts of Social Media and Digital Platform Concentration

ProMarket writers
Ahead of its annual conference on Digital Platforms, Markets and Democracy, the Stigler Center formed a committee to produce independent white papers that will...
Antitrust and Competition

The Political Footprint of Big Tech in Five Easy Charts

Francesco Trebbi
Big tech firms have been active in Washington since the early days of the Microsoft antitrust case, but in recent years they have increased...
Antitrust and Competition

Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe´s Quest for a New Industrial Policy

Oscar Guinea
Weakening competition policy in Europe risks creating monopolies rather than industrial champions. An interventionist style of industrial policy, one that revolves around picking winners, has...
Antitrust and Competition

Restoring Antimonopoly Through Bright-Line Rules

Open Markets
The “consumer welfare” approach to antimonopoly is the main contributor to the extreme and dangerous concentrations of power that Americans face today. In place...
Antitrust and Competition

Are “Patent Trolls” Stick-Up Artists or Just Benign Middlemen?

Ufuk Akcigit
A new study explores the dual effect that non-practicing entities, commonly known as patent trolls, have on innovation and the market of ideas. The discussion...
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