antitrust and competition
Two Views of Exclusion: Why the European Union and the United States Diverged on Google
What accounts for the difference in contemporary EU and US antitrust doctrine? Examined closely, says William E. Kovacic in Chapter 4 of our forthcoming...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)
This week in political economy.
Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?
What are the bases of the digital platforms’ power? In Chapter 3 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration ebook in advance of this month’s...
Does the European Union Use Its Antitrust Power for Protectionism?
The European Commission’s 2001 decision to stop GE’s acquisition of Honeywell might be the most famous of its several decisions to interfere in mergers...
A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms
In Chapter 2 of the ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, forthcoming ahead of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference on April 19 and 20, Justus...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 24-March 31)
This week in political economy.
Still mired in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s terrible month became worse this week after BuzzFeed published a 2016...
“Globalization Has Contributed to Tearing Societies Apart”
In an interview with ProMarket, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explained where globalization went wrong, how trade agreements serve rent-seeking by politically well-connected firms, and...
eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
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...
