antitrust and competition
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 10–Feb. 17)
This week in political economy.
Yesterday's New York Times editorial: “The terror that has gripped their elected officials … is fear of the wealthy gun...
Case 2000: How Netanyahu and Israel’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Planned to Subvert the Market for News and Ideas
It doesn’t involve a high-profile American billionaire, and yet of the two cases on which the police recommended indicting Israel’s prime minister, “Case 2000”...
New Evidence and Legal Theories About Horizontal Shareholding
Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge on his new paper on horizontal shareholding, which provides new empirical evidence that even when horizontal shareholders individually...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 2–Feb. 10)
This week in political economy.
India’s competition authority imposed a 1.36 billion rupees ($21.1 million) fine on Google after it found the company guilty...
Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton talks about the connection of rent-seeking and monopolization to rising inequality.
In December, the United...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 29–Feb. 2)
This week in political economy.
As cities across America continue to compete for Amazon’s second headquarters, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari...
Are Google and Facebook Monopolies?
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition.
Google and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 20–29)
This week in political economy.
The world's political and business elites gathered in Davos this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 13–20)
This week in political economy.
The backlash against big tech that began in 2017 continues in earnest. The Economist’s cover story this week: “How to...
New Study Shows Just How Bad the US Labor Market’s Competition Problem Really Is
In recent decades, antitrust policy has all but ignored the issue of monopsony power. Yet a new paper shows that across the US economy,...
