A new Stigler Center case study chronicling the story of Chile’s first crowdfunding platform and its early regulatory challenges illustrates how financial regulations can be effectively used by incumbents to stifle competition.
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Amazon at $1,000 – Should We Be Celebrating?
Amazon, whose stock price crossed $1,000 per share last week, illustrates the shortcomings of our current antitrust regime.
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“The Financialization of the U.S. Economy Has Produced Mechanisms That Lead Toward Concentration”
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.
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“Business Journalism Fails Spectacularly in Holding the Powerful to Account”
Can the media hold powerful corporate actors to account in an age of rising concentration? A Stigler Center panel offers opposing views.
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“Markets Today Are Radically Different Than What We Believe – We Have the Façade of Competition”
A Stigler Center panel explores the implications of big data for competition policy and for consumer welfare.
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“Antimonopoly Is as Old as the Republic”
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 historians and economists at the recent Stigler Center conference on concentration in America discussed the historical evolution of this debate.
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Watch: “The Reason We Have Google and Facebook Today Is Because of Antitrust Enforcement Against Microsoft”
In an interview with the Chicago Booth Review, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales spoke about the importance of competition.
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“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
Media scholar Jonathan Taplin, author of the new book Move Fast and Break Things, on the rent-seeking and regulatory capture of digital platforms.
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Trump and Sinclair’s Art of the Deal
Donald Trump is actually a boon for many media outlets. Consider, for instance, the case of Sinclair’s TV and radio stations that supported him throughout his presidential campaign.
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Is There a Connection Between Market Concentration and the Rise in Inequality?
A Stigler Center panel debates: Is rising inequality connected to monopolies, rent-seeking, and concentration?
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“The Increase in Common Ownership Corresponds to the Concentration Increase That Several Large Mergers Would Create”
In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Martin Schmalz from the University of Michigan talks about the effects of common ownership on concentration.
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Is There a Case to be Made for Political Antitrust?
After decades of approaching antitrust through purely economic analyses, are economists once again willing to take into account political considerations as well?
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