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An outlet for insiders to speak freely (as they remain anonymous to the reader) on what they perceive as problematic practices in their own industry – with an emphasis on how the industry tweaks the rules of the game and captures regulation.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice.” Adam Smith – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

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Max Oversight Duties: How the Boeing Case Signifies a Shift in Corporate Law

Roy Shapira
Why did regulation, corporate governance, and fear of repetitional harm fail to prevent the Boeing 737 Max debacle from happening? A new paper explores...
Antitrust and Competition

How Practical Are Biden’s Proposals to Promote Labor Market Competition?

James Traina
A new report from the Biden administration lays out ways to increase competition in US labor markets. Will they work? A Biden administration report, published...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Aligning Antitrust Policy With Sustainability is a Moral Imperative 

Marios Iacovides
The looming ecological disaster means that it is time for competition researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and economists to devise competition policies that focus on the...
Antitrust and Competition

The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows that Climate Action is the Newest Antitrust Frontier

Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to environmental sustainability initiatives from...
Antitrust and Competition

Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World

Filippo Lancieri
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are inadequate to...
Commentary

The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Russia

Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Normally, economic sanctions are largely a symbolic criticism of a country’s actions and nothing more. This time it’s different, but they will still take...
Antitrust and Competition

What Economists Mean When They Say “Consumer Welfare Standard”

Leah Samuel
Though coined by academic economists, the term “consumer welfare standard” has been captured and changed by the economic school of thought known as the...
Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Calls for DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter’s Recusal Are Baseless

Laurence H. Tribe
Kanter’s pre-existing commitment to aggressive antitrust enforcement, far from compromising the legitimacy of his actions, reinforces his qualifications for doing the job of Assistant...
Antitrust and Competition

The Ties that Bind Workers to Firms: No-Poach Agreements, Noncompetes, and Other Ways Firms Create and Exercise Labor Market Power

Evan Starr
Collusive no-poach agreements are per se illegal, but noncompete clauses are not. Recent research casts doubt on the rationale for this legal distinction and...
Commentary

This Proposal Could Inadvertently Improve Corporate Accounting

Karthik Ramanna
A provision within the Biden administration’s Build Back Better bill that assesses a minimum tax on certain companies based on their income reported to...
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