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The Greatest Anticompetitive Threat of Our Time: Fixing the Horizontal Shareholding Problem
Undisputed empirical studies confirm that horizontal shareholding poses a great anticompetitive threat. What can antitrust enforcers do about it? Quite a lot, in fact.
Editors'...
Market Power or Just Scale Economies?
While increased economies of scale may offer a partial explanation for higher margins and declining dynamism in the US economy, growing market power provides...
Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics
Jason Furman, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers: We will likely need to update our competition policies to promote competition if we...
Inside Tech’s “Kill Zone”: How to Deal With the Threat to Edge Innovation Posed by Multi-Sided Platforms
Dominant tech platforms can exploit the vast amounts of user data available only to them to squash startups and independent providers. Hal Singer offers...
How the FTC Protects Strong Employers and Targets Weak Workers
Since the 1970s, the US has seen a growing power imbalance between workers and employers. This story was not inevitable, but the product of...
Why the FTC Should Focus on Labor Monopsony
Economic theory tells us that firms are more likely to exploit labor market power than product market power in the United States today. And...
