antitrust and competition
Amazon at $1,000 – Should We Be Celebrating?
Amazon, whose stock price crossed $1,000 per share last week, illustrates the shortcomings of our current antitrust regime.
Last Tuesday, Amazon’s stock price crossed $1,000...
"The Financialization of the U.S. Economy Has Produced Mechanisms That Lead Toward Concentration"
In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Gerald Berk from the University of Oregon discusses the political implications of concentration.
Does...
“Business Journalism Fails Spectacularly in Holding the Powerful to Account”
Can the media hold powerful corporate actors to account in an age of rising concentration? A Stigler Center panel offers opposing views.
The election of...
“Markets Today Are Radically Different Than What We Believe – We Have the Façade of Competition"
A Stigler Center panel explores the implications of big data for competition policy and for consumer welfare.
The business model at the heart of the digital...
"Antimonopoly Is as Old as the Republic"
Should the U.S. enforce more explicit restrictions on monopolies, or can innovation and democracy alone mitigate the pervasive effects of monopoly power? A panel of...
Watch: “The Reason We Have Google and Facebook Today Is Because of Antitrust Enforcement Against Microsoft”
In an interview with the Chicago Booth Review, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales spoke about the importance of competition.
“Competition is the essence of what makes...
Trump and Sinclair's Art of the Deal
Donald Trump is actually a boon for many media outlets. Consider, for instance, the case of Sinclair's TV and radio stations that supported him throughout his...
“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956"
Media scholar Jonathan Taplin, author of the new book Move Fast and Break Things, on the rent-seeking and regulatory capture of digital platforms.
In 2014,...
Is There a Connection Between Market Concentration and the Rise in Inequality?
A Stigler Center panel debates: Is rising inequality connected to monopolies, rent-seeking, and concentration?
The rise in wealth and income inequality has been at the forefront of...
“The Increase in Common Ownership Corresponds to the Concentration Increase That Several Large Mergers Would Create”
In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Martin Schmalz from the University of Michigan talks about the effects of common ownership...
