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Antitrust and Competition

Merger Review Should Test for Labor Market Mavericks

Shishene Jing
Although merger review now acknowledges potential harms to labor markets, the analytical tools remain underdeveloped. Shishene Jing proposes identifying “labor market mavericks” as companies essential to maintaining competition among employers and preventing mergers that could reduce wages and other worker benefits.
Stigler Center News

Call for 2027 Applications: The Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center has opened applications for its Journalists in Residence Program. Applications are due September 20. The Stigler Center has opened applications for its...
Democracy

American Slaveholders Lost Their Wealth but Kept Their Political Power

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan Maurer
In new research, Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, and Stephan Maurer examine how the abolition of slavery after the American Civil War affected the political influence of former slaveholders. Despite the blow to their economic standing, former slaveholders maintained their electoral success, and once in office, their influence actually grew.
Antitrust and Competition

Chilean Regulators Are Exploring the Effects of a “No Exception” Rule Against Most-Favored Nation Clauses in Digital Markets

Manuel Abarca Meza
Chilean authorities are testing an unofficial “independence rule” that forbids digital platforms from exerting further influence over how business users set their own prices through most-favored-nation clauses. Manuel Abarca Meza assesses how this rule could potentially fit into antitrust case law and whether or not it effectively weighs the risks against market efficiencies.
Antitrust and Competition

Green Public Procurement Was Supposed To Reduce Emissions. It’s Also Reducing Competition

Francesca Chiaradia
The federal Buy Clean initiative illustrates how procurement quotas can alter market structure by raising compliance costs and rewarding scale. As states expand their own Buy Clean programs, competition effects deserve the same scrutiny as environmental ones, writes Francesca Chiaradia.
Cultural Economics

School Smartphone Bans Show No Effect on Youth Mental Health

Henry Saffer
Following a decade of declining youth mental health, many states have attempted to limit children’s access to social media and the internet by banning smartphones in schools. In new research, Henry Saffer finds no evidence that in-school smartphone bans have any effect on the screentime or mental well-being of young Americans.

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