antitrust and competition
“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
Over the...
Study: Politically-Connected Firms More Likely to Receive Favorable Merger Reviews from Antitrust Regulators
A new study finds that firms connected to members of the House and Senate judiciary committees are more likely to receive favorable merger reviews.
The...
Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
The Rise of Market Power and the Decline of Labor’s Share
A new paper argues that the decline of the labor and capital shares, as well as the decline in low-skilled wages and other economic trends, have been...
Eliot Spitzer: The U.S. Never Had the Will and the Ability to Hold the Most Powerful to Account
In a special interview with ProMarket, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about financial regulation, regulatory capture, and antitrust. Part 1 of 2.
Clear rules and...
How Markets in Europe Opened Up as Guild Monopolies Declined in the Sixteenth Century
Markets don’t function well if they are ridden with frictions like lack of information or lack of trust. A new working paper finds that...
Big Four Audit Firms Enjoy a “Too Few to Fail” Regulatory Hall Pass
The failure of Enron and subsequent demise of Arthur Andersen led to significant changes for public reporting and auditing but not much change in...
How Market Power Leads to Corporate Political Influence
Neoclassical economic theory assumes that firms have no power to influence the rules of the game. A new paper by Luigi Zingales argues: This is...
How Financial Regulations Can Create Barriers to Entry: The Case of Cumplo in Chile
A new Stigler Center case study chronicling the story of Chile’s first crowdfunding platform and its early regulatory challenges illustrates how financial regulations can be...
