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Randy Picker
Randal C. Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Antitrust and Competition
The FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Will Force Questions Over the Scope of its Authority
To understand why a proposed rule could spark a Supreme Court battle over the Federal Trade Commission’s powers to regulate the American...
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Antitrust and Competition
How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users?Â
The Senate looks to be nearing a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would prohibit gatekeeping digital platforms...
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Antitrust and Competition
The House’s Recent Spate of Antitrust Bills Would Change Big Tech as We Know It
If enacted, the five bills that were introduced in the House this month would represent the most dramatic statutory changes to US...
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Antitrust and Competition
Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work
The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App...
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Antitrust and Competition
Forcing Interoperability on Tech Platforms Would Be Difficult to Do
Governments around the world seem to be on a path to turn the leading tech firms into public utilities. Interoperability is likely...
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Antitrust and Competition
Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects
How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers.
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Antitrust and Competition
Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it...
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Antitrust and Competition
Structural Separation and Self-Preferencing: What are the Right Lessons of History?
IBM’s entry into the PC market can teach us a lot about the risks involved with the sort of structural separations recommended...
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Antitrust and Competition
The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small?
Last week’s epic House hearing on online platforms raised many issues, chief among which was the question who gets to operate at...
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Antitrust and Competition
At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?
Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users...
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Development
Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
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Gaurav Chiplunkar
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new...
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Fiscal Policy
Biden’s Second-Best Economic Agenda
Walter Frick
Efficiency is out and political economy is in. But what does that imply about making good policy?
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Monetary Policy
The Fed and Bank Failures
Raghuram Rajan
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Viral V Acharya
Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan explain how quantitative easing contributed to the problems underlying the recent bank failures such as that of...
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Antitrust and Competition
Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse
Patrice Bougette
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Oliver Budzinski
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Frédéric Marty
Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, and Frédéric Marty argue in their research that antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic must take...
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Antitrust and Competition
Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth
Christian Fons-Rosen
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Pau Roldan-Blanco
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Tom Schmitz
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote...
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ESG & Corporate Governance
History Shows that Voluntary ESG Standards Lead to a More Focused ESG Disclosure
Ethan Rouen
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Kunal Sachdeva
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Aaron Yoon
In recent years, ESG reports have become more common for publicly traded companies. However, critics have found the information they provide to...
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Regulation
Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation
Renée Adams
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Thomas Mosk
Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call?...
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