antitrust and competition
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)
This week in political economy.
The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
Roger McNamee: “I Think You Can Make a Legitimate Case that Facebook Has Become Parasitic”
In an interview with ProMarket, Facebook early investor Roger McNamee talks about his efforts to get Facebook to fix its business model and the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 10-March 17)
This week in political economy.
A federal appeals court voided the Department of Labor's “fiduciary rule,” an Obama-era rule that instructed financial professionals like...
The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration
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...
Strong Employers and Weak Employees: Study Sheds New Light on How Labor Market Concentration Hurts Workers
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...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)
This week in political economy.
ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
Colluding in Plain Sight: Study Finds Airlines Use Earnings Calls to Coordinate Capacity Reductions
What are airline executives really saying to each other with their extensive discussion of “capacity discipline”? New research from the University of Virginia finds...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 24–March 3)
This week in political economy.
Italy’s elections are on Sunday, and with the polls being inconclusive and the reemergence of former PM Silvio Berlusconi...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)
This week in political economy.
Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
Are Markups Increasing?
A new Stigler Center paper challenges recent research on market power in the US, showing that markups did not increase over the last few...
