antitrust and competition
140 Years of Antitrust: Are Brandeisian Pro-Competition and Anti-Monopoly Sentiments Coming Back Into the Political Discourse?
The first installment in a four-part series about the history of antitrust language in American political discourse: politicians from the Right and the Left...
How Can Antitrust Be Used to Protect Competition in the Digital Marketplace?
In this second part of our two-part interview with Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi, the two discuss how competition authorities can mitigate tacit collusion...
Is the Digital Economy Much Less Competitive Than We Think It Is?
Maurice E. Stucke from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Ariel Ezrachi of Oxford University explain how big data and artificial intelligence can be...
American Antitrust Is Having a Moment: Some Reactions to Commissioner Ohlhausen’s Recent Views
Contrary to what Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen says, there is in fact no meaningful proof that consolidation generates social benefits.
Editor's note: In...
Are “Pay for Delay” Settlements in Patent Litigation Collusive?
A new study suggests that “pay for delay” settlements–in which generic drug manufacturers that challenge the patents of branded drug firms agree to drop...
What Role for Antitrust in the Era of Rising Inequality? The Importance of Power in Supply Chains
Concentration of power in supply chains is a prime mechanism by which dominant companies consolidate power and profits.
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was...
“Why Argue With the Government When You Can Buy the Government?”: Q&A with Gary Reback
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust lawyer Gary Reback elaborated on the difference between antitrust enforcement in the U.S. and Europe, the influence the U.S. Supreme...
Market Power and Inequality: How Big Should Antitrust’s Role Be in Reducing Inequality?
Is the rise of wealth inequality in the United States related to a decline in competition? A new paper answers in the affirmative.
Is the...
Fighting Regulatory Capture in the 21st Century
It should come as no surprise that the movement against regulatory capture is gaining momentum at this particular moment in our nation’s history.
It is...
Is More Antitrust the Answer to Rising Wealth Inequality?
University of Michigan professor Daniel Crane: “The story that somehow antitrust law is dead, that it’s been killed, is wrong. It hasn’t. It’s very...
