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Antitrust and Competition

Digital Platforms’ Targeting Tools Are Opaque and Potentially Dangerous

Guy Rolnik
A lawsuit claims that Facebook inflated video metrics to lure advertisers. Facebook denies, but it's worth noting that it would be much easier for...
Antitrust and Competition

“In the Wake of the 2008 Crisis, You Can't Ignore the Influence of Big Business on Economic Policy”

Asher Schechter
Historian and author Adam Tooze talks to ProMarket about how the financial crisis “remade” American capitalism, why the US response to the crisis was...
Antitrust and Competition

Product Market Concentration Is Decreasing, and It’s Because of the Big Guys

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
A new study by economists at Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond finds that while national market concentration is clearly increasing,...
Antitrust and Competition

Does Uber Kill? The Real Cost of Ride-sharing

Luigi Zingales
A new Stigler Center working paper finds that ride-sharing actually increases the number of new car registrations and fatal accidents. Two years ago, the Stigler...
Antitrust and Competition

On the Economics of the Google Android Case

Greg Taylor
A general challenge facing competition authorities in the digital era is learning how to apply the traditional tools of competition policy in multi-sided platform...
Antitrust and Competition

Can Horizontal Mergers Actually Boost Competition?

Dirk Hackbarth
Research by Dirk Hackbarth and Bart Taub shows the potential to merge in the future increases competition prior to merging. Hence--in contrast to the...
Antitrust and Competition

Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?

Asher Schechter
Sen. Mark Warner’s proposals to regulate social media platforms are by far the most ambitious to come from Congress. We gathered three experts to...
Antitrust and Competition

“If You’re Running an Authoritarian Government, You Love Facebook”

Asher Schechter
In a wide-ranging interview with ProMarket, media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan explains why Facebook has become “too big to manage” and why he believes the...
Antitrust and Competition

What Current Research (Still) Gets Wrong about Market Power

James Traina
Two much-discussed new studies argue that market power is on the rise not only in the United States, but also around the world. Here,...
Antitrust and Competition

Paul Tucker on Unelected Power: A Technocrat against Technocracy

Luigi Zingales
In a recent review of Paul Tucker’s new book Unelected Power (extracted here for ProMarket), Diane Coyle of the University of Manchester and the...
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