antitrust and competition
More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market
The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are high and...
Invigorating Competition in Health Care Markets: Is Rate Regulation Needed?
It now appears that market concentration may be the leading cause of America’s health care cost crisis. If the United States is going to...
Fixing a Broken Antitrust Regime
In her new book Antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar explains the origins of US antitrust law, diagnoses how the nation got derailed from the legislative...
The Profit Paradox: “What’s Good for Firms Is Not Necessarily Good for the Workers”
In an interview with ProMarket, Jan Eeckhout discusses his new book The Profit Paradox and explains how market power brings down wages, even if...
Concentration in the EU: Where It is Increasing and Why
Increasing concentration is not unique to the US—recent studies show that concentration is rising in Europe as well, although to a lesser extent than...
Why Are So Few Law Professors Interested in Antitrust?
Over the past five years, there have been 417 self-reported new US law professor hires. Over those five years, only seven candidates have reported...
Eliminating Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Won’t End the Georgia Political Boycott
There are good arguments for getting rid of baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws, but the reason cited by Republican Senators angry at MLB’s...
Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work
The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App Store. The...
The Biggest Problem Facing America: Misinformation-At-Scale
Technology companies must put community safety and privacy at the core of their business model, ensure that advertising technology is utilized responsibly, and quickly...
Of Antitrust and Patents: the Quiet Return of the Status Quo at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division
Without Senate-confirmed political leadership, the Department of Justice quietly reverts to an Obama-era policy that favors Big Tech.
The consistent theme running through Makan Delrahim’s...
