Georg Rilinger
Georg is an economic sociologist who studies how and why opportunities and incentives for socially destructive behavior emerge in markets. In his current project, he pursues these questions by analyzing the California energy crisis of 2000/01 as a case of failed market design. In the past, he has studied how criminal conspiracies manage to avoid regulatory oversight. Since October of 2020, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Prior to returning to Germany, he received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago where he was a Bradley Fellow at the Stigler Center.
Antitrust and Competition
The Texas Blackouts and the Problems of Electricity Market Design
Even in an ideal electricity market, reliability is an elusive and precarious byproduct of companies’ search for profits. Since market designers are...
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Antitrust and Competition
The “Conspiracy” of Consumer Welfare Theory
Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose.
Antitrust and Competition
Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic
The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid...
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
Antitrust and Competition
How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
Antitrust and Competition
Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
Antitrust and Competition
The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...
Antitrust and Competition
Google’s Anticompetitive Conduct and the Remedies to Prevent It
The Stigler Center, of which ProMarket is a part, recently hosted a panel discussion looking at the antitrust case against Google and...
