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Antitrust and Competition

“In 10 Years, the Surveillance Business Model Will Have Been Made Illegal”

Asher Schechter
The opening panel of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference discussed the source of digital platforms’ power and what, if anything, can be done...
Antitrust and Competition

Glen Weyl: "The Very Structure of Capitalism Is Inherently Monopolistic"

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Glen Weyl, co-author of the wildly ambitious (and wildly controversial) new book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a...
Antitrust and Competition

Why the T-Mobile–Sprint Merger Will Likely Lead to Higher Prices and Lower Quality

Luigi Zingales
The rise in prices of mobile services risks imposing a higher tax on most households, higher than any possible tax rebate they might receive.  The...
Antitrust and Competition

Luigi Zingales Proposes Creation of Interdisciplinary Committee on Digital Platforms Regulation

ProMarket writers
The Committee on Internet Platforms Regulation, proposed Zingales would be comprised of academics and experts on the industry.     At the end of the Stigler Center’s conference...
Antitrust and Competition

What Used Books Can Tell Us about Competition in Online Markets

Sara Fisher Ellison
It is not every day that economists can identify a market where consumers are significantly better off after large price increases. Nonetheless, a new...
Antitrust and Competition

Data Workers of the World, Unite!

Eric A. Posner
With solutions to the threats of digital monopolies currently looking unlikely to come from the state, law and economics scholars Eric Posner and Glen...
Antitrust and Competition

Former Italian PM and European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti: Why Antitrust Enforcement Is “More Vigorous" in Europe Than in the US

Asher Schechter
Why is Europe so much more vigorous than the US when it comes to antitrust enforcement? In an interview with ProMarket, Monti, who served...
Antitrust and Competition

DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”

Asher Schechter
In a keynote address at the Stigler Center's Antitrust and Competition: Digital Platforms and Concentration conference, the US Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General...
Antitrust and Competition

ProMarket Is Live at the 2nd Annual Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference: Digital Platforms and Concentration

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
Check out the live coverage by the ProMarket team of the invitation-only 2018 Antitrust and Competition: Digital Platforms and Concentration conference, hosted by Chicago...
Antitrust and Competition

Noncompete Agreements Boost Investment But Stifle Start-Ups

Alex Verkhivker
While noncompetes raise investment significantly, they also measurably hamper entrepreneurial activity, according to a new working paper from Chicago Booth’s Jessica S. Jeffers.     Editor's note: This...
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