antitrust and competition
Why Aligning Antitrust Policy With Sustainability is a Moral Imperative
The looming ecological disaster means that it is time for competition researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and economists to devise competition policies that focus on the...
How to Prevent Big Tech From Hindering Pathbreaking Innovation in the Metaverse
The transition to the metaverse presents a technological paradigm shift akin to the shift from desktop computers to smartphones, but today’s dominant platforms will...
The Consumer Welfare Standard and Antitrust Enforcement: a Response
Alden Abbott, former general counsel of the FTC, argues that, contrary to claims made in a recent ProMarket article, American competition is vibrant and robust....
The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan...
The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows that Climate Action is the Newest Antitrust Frontier
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to environmental sustainability initiatives from...
Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are inadequate to...
Antitrust and Sustainability: An Introduction to an Ongoing Debate
Can sustainability play a role in antitrust enforcement? And should it? Lund University professor Julian Nowag explores the debate around that intersection of sustainability,...
What Economists Mean When They Say “Consumer Welfare Standard”
Though coined by academic economists, the term “consumer welfare standard” has been captured and changed by the economic school of thought known as the...
Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income
A new working paper examines the relationship between competition policy and the decline in the labor share across the developed world and finds that...
How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
