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Antitrust and Competition

Does the European Union Use Its Antitrust Power for Protectionism?

Anu Bradford
The European Commission’s 2001 decision to stop GE’s acquisition of Honeywell might be the most famous of its several decisions to interfere in mergers...
Antitrust and Competition

A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms

Justus Haucap
In Chapter 2 of the ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, forthcoming ahead of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference on April 19 and 20, Justus...
Antitrust and Competition

eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential

Ariel Ezrachi
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
Antitrust and Competition

Roger McNamee: “I Think You Can Make a Legitimate Case that Facebook Has Become Parasitic”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Facebook early investor Roger McNamee talks about his efforts to get Facebook to fix its business model and the...
Antitrust and Competition

The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration

ProMarket writers
The invitation-only conference will bring together economists, law scholars, intellectuals, venture capitalists, and businesspeople to debate how to promote competition in a world of...
Antitrust and Competition

Strong Employers and Weak Employees: Study Sheds New Light on How Labor Market Concentration Hurts Workers

Asher Schechter
New study finds that wages are significantly lower in concentrated labor markets—and even lower in labor markets where unionization rates are low. America’s decades-long wage...
Antitrust and Competition

Colluding in Plain Sight: Study Finds Airlines Use Earnings Calls to Coordinate Capacity Reductions

Gaurab Aryal
What are airline executives really saying to each other with their extensive discussion of “capacity discipline”? New research from the University of Virginia finds...
Antitrust and Competition

Are Markups Increasing?

James Traina
A new Stigler Center paper challenges recent research on market power in the US, showing that markups did not increase over the last few...
Antitrust and Competition

New Evidence and Legal Theories About Horizontal Shareholding

Einer Elhauge
Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge on his new paper on horizontal shareholding, which provides new empirical evidence that even when horizontal shareholders individually...
Antitrust and Competition

Are Google and Facebook Monopolies?

ProMarket writers
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition.         Google and...
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