A new paper argues that the decline of the labor and capital shares, as well as the decline in low-skilled wages and other economic trends, have been...
Amazon, whose stock price crossed $1,000 per share last week, illustrates the shortcomings of our current antitrust regime.
Last Tuesday, Amazon’s stock price crossed $1,000...
In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Gerald Berk from the University of Oregon discusses the political implications of concentration.
Does...
Can the media hold powerful corporate actors to account in an age of rising concentration? A Stigler Center panel offers opposing views.
The election of...
A Stigler Center panel explores the implications of big data for competition policy and for consumer welfare.
The business model at the heart of the digital...
Should the U.S. enforce more explicit restrictions on monopolies, or can innovation and democracy alone mitigate the pervasive effects of monopoly power? A panel of...
In an interview with the Chicago Booth Review, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales spoke about the importance of competition.
“Competition is the essence of what makes...
Media scholar Jonathan Taplin, author of the new book Move Fast and Break Things, on the rent-seeking and regulatory capture of digital platforms.
In 2014,...
A Stigler Center panel debates: Is rising inequality connected to monopolies, rent-seeking, and concentration?
The rise in wealth and income inequality has been at the forefront of...