antitrust and competition
Live Blog: "Is There a Concentration Problem in America?" – Day 1
The Stigler Center is hosting a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference in Chicago that focuses on this very question, bringing together dozens of top academics, policymakers,...
Netanyahu, Trump, Nixon and the Use of Antitrust to Tame the Media
Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are waging a war against the media. Their tools of choice are the same ones used...
“There Is No Indication That Trump Is Pro-Competition”
A new paper by economists Steven C. Salop and Carl Shapiro explores what antitrust might look like under President Trump. In an interview with...
“Growing Evidence That Some U.S. Regulators May Value the Profits of the Incumbents They Regulate Over Consumer Welfare”
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, we ask Fiona M. Scott Morton of Yale University about the effects of concentration in America and...
“Our Efforts to Deal With Tech Firms' Market Dominance in the U.S. Have Been an Abject Failure”
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, Harvard economist F.M. Scherer answers questions about concentration, antitrust, tech giants, and inequality. "Antitrust agencies have not taken sufficient...
"The Exercise of Market Power Probably Contributes to Economy-Wide Inequality"
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series on concentration in the U.S., American University law professor Jonathan Baker shares some thoughts on marker power...
"There Is Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been Rising"
Our new interview series: "Is there a concentration problem in America?" On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference that will...
Conference: Is There a Concentration Problem in America?
On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference on the question of concentration in the U.S. economy that will bring...
"Political Engagement by Corporations Derives from and is Focused on Seeking Monopolistic Power"
In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series, Harvard Business School professor emeritus Joseph Bower shares some thoughts on rent-seeking, politics, and the role of corporations...
“The Ability of Companies to Subvert the Operating Rules for the Market is a Deep, Systematic, Durable Force”
In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series, we ask Harvard Business School professor Herman "Dutch" Leonard about the involvement of corporations in politics...
