type here...

Commentary

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)

Antitrust and Competition

European Labor Antitrust Has Reached a Defining Moment. How Far Will It Go?

Jan Broulík
Jan Broulík writes that the interest and willingness of European competition authorities and courts to intervene in markets to protect labor has made critical strides over the last few months. However, it still has a ways to go to even catch up with its American counterpart.
Antitrust and Competition

Returning Antitrust to the People

Matthew Lucky
Stigler Center Assistant Director Matt Lucky reflects on the comments from his panel on competition advocacy at the 2025 Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference. He weighs the meaning and possibility for a democratically legitimate antitrust and competition policy.
Commentary

Financial Regulators Must Pursue a Multidisciplinary Approach to New Technology

Claudia Biancotti
Crypto assets and social media are changing how finance operates. Uncertainty around the future of AI is affecting financial markets. Claudia Biancotti argues that regulators must expand their range of expertise and pursue a multidisciplinary approach to protecting society against the potential negative spillovers from these developments.
Commentary

The House Budget Bill Is One Big Beautiful Boon for Code Cartels

Meher Sethi
Meher Sethi argues that a little-noticed provision in the federal budget recently passed by the House will gut state laws protecting consumers from algorithmic price-fixing.
Commentary

Brazil’s Efforts To Address Election Disinformation Illustrate the Difficulties of Protecting the Marketplace of Ideas

Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto
Caio Mario S. Pereira Neto reflects on the discussions at the Stigler Center’s 2025 Antitrust and Competition Conference and addresses the problems that confront Brazil’s courts as they navigate the tradeoffs between removing disinformation that threatens electoral integrity and observing constitutional protections for freedom of expression.
Antitrust and Competition

Telecommunications Markets Are Consolidating Again. Americans Should Look to the Public Option

Sean Gonsalves
In recent weeks, a spate of mergers has been announced in telecommunications markets. The activity endangers Americans’ access to affordable and reliable internet services. Rather than continue to depend on private companies to provide essential internet services, cities should look to the many communities that have provided significantly lower-cost and higher-quality public internet connectivity, writes Sean Gonsalves. 
Commentary

Delaware’s SB21 Continues 150 Years of Corporate Power and Regulatory Capture

Christina M. Sautter
Christina M. Sautter writes that the passage of Senate Bill 21, which rebalances power away from shareholders to corporate management, represents a 150-year-long development in corporate law spurred by regulatory capture that has removed countless restrictions on firm behavior.
Antitrust and Competition

EU and US Antitrust Is Converging on Anti-Monopoly

Paul Friederiszick
There are many differences between European and American antitrust regulation, but recent enforcement against Big Tech shows that in the most important ways they are converging on an anti-monopoly philosophy, writes Paul Friederiszick.
Commentary

How Media Concentration in the Age of Radio Prefigured Today’s Big Tech Debate

Richard R. John
In the 1930s, staffers at the newly established Federal Communications Commission devised a novel rationale for limiting network power in radio, telephony, and the press. While much has changed since the “age of radio,” the concerns they raised inform the present-day debate over the control that social media platforms exert over public discourse, writes Richard R. John.
Commentary

China Is Using Its Market Power To Influence Foreign Policymaking

Audrye Wong
Audrye Wong writes that China is able to use its market power to pressure foreign companies and business leaders—perhaps most notably Tesla CEO Elon Musk—to lobby on its behalf. The practice raises questions about foreign influence in American and European policymaking and the disproportionate clout of business and oligarchic interests.
123...46Page 1 of 46

Latest news

View All

The publication of the Stigler Center at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

ProMarket is dedicated to discussing how competition tends to be subverted by special interests. The posts represent the opinions of their writers, not necessarily those of the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, or its faculty. For more information, please visit ProMarket Policy.